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biosdevname package

do not fall back on PIRQ tables on systems where SMBIOS 2.6 is not implemented

Bug #1046480 reported by Jared Dominguez on 2012-09-05

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	biosdevname (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

With the default PROGRAM= line in biosdevname.rules.in, for systems with no SMBIOS 2.6 implemented, biosdevname might not find the type 41 tables and might fall back on PIRQ tables. PIRQ tables might be buggy and cause incorrect names.

The PROGRAM= line is modified in RHEL's and SLES' rules file to have the --smbios 2.6 and –nopirq checks:
PROGRAM="/sbin/biosdevname --smbios 2.6 --nopirq --policy physical -i %k", NAME="%c", OPTIONS+="string_escape=replace"

The upstream rules file does not contain the above check and looks like this:
PROGRAM="/sbin/biosdevname --policy physical -i %k", NAME="%c", OPTIONS+="string_escape=replace"

The attached quilt patch fixes this.

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lp:ubuntu/quantal/biosdevname

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Jared Dominguez (jared-dominguez) wrote on 2012-09-05:

do not fall back on PIRQ tables on systems where SMBIOS 2.6 is not implemented to ensure that the correct biosdevname names are used Edit (468 bytes, text/plain)

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Jared Dominguez (jared-dominguez) wrote on 2012-09-05:

I forgot to mention. This patch is for biosdevname 0.4.1. I did not check for previous biosdevname versions.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-09-05:

The attachment "do not fall back on PIRQ tables on systems where SMBIOS 2.6 is not implemented to ensure that the correct biosdevname names are used" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-reviewers team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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added: patch

Kent Baxley (kentb) on 2012-09-05

Changed in biosdevname (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-09-06:

Thanks!

Changed in biosdevname (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Jared Dominguez (jared-dominguez) wrote on 2012-09-06:

Thank you, Colin!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-09-06:

This bug was fixed in the package biosdevname - 0.4.1-0ubuntu3

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biosdevname (0.4.1-0ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Daniel Jared Dominguez ]
  * Do not fall back on PIRQ tables on systems where SMBIOS 2.6 is not
    implemented (LP: #1046480).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:41:51 +0100