s390-tools 1.8.2

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s390-tools is a package with a set of user space utilities to be used with the Linux on System z distributions.

s390-tools-1.8.2.tar.bz2 / MD5 recommended (2009-09-18)

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• cio_ignore: Query and modify the contents of the CIO device driver blacklist.
• znetconf: List and configure network devices for System z network adapters.

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• General: Reworked s390-tools build process.
• dasdview: Add solid state device support.
  • Extend the -c option to show if a disk is a solid state device or not.
• lscss: Also show devices on the defunct subchannel.

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• General: Fixed a lot of build warnings.
• cpuplugd: Fix cmm_pages allocation.
  • Fix cmm_pages allocation outside min and max limitation.
• dasdinfo:
  • Strip trailing spaces from volume serials with less then 6 characters.
  • Read volume serials also from CMS formatted disks.
• dumpconf: Validate DEVICE keyword, enhance error handling.
  • The DEVICE keyword is accepted in both devno and bus-ID syntax. In case of invalid keywords the corresponding error messages are more precise.
• lsluns: Fixed disk encryption check that is performed when the new "--active" command line switch is used.
• vmur, ziomon tools: Install tools under "/usr/sbin" instead of "/sbin".
  • Because vmur and ziomon use libstdc++ that normally is installed under "/usr/lib", the tools are now installed under "/usr/sbin".
• zfcpdbf:
  • Fix reading of recovery trace.
  • Fix tag checks in reading of hba trace.
  • Fix output of els requests in san trace.
  • Remove color output that only works on some terminal types.
  • Remove output of no longer existing driver flags.
  • Remove outdated code for support of 2.4.x kernels.
• zipl:
  • Ensure that zipl is built with non-executable stack.
    The ".note.GNU-stack" section is lost when the boot loaders in zipl are built. The reason is that objcopy removes all sections except of the text section: $(OBJCOPY) -O binary --only-section=.text $< $@
    When the linker finds a object file without the .note.GNU-stack section, it forces the binary to have executable stack.
    To fix the problem, the noexecstack option is used in the link step.
  • "zipl --help" does not mention "--force".
    Add information on the "--force" option introduced together with "--mvdump".
  • Do not use "Error" if user answered zipl confirmation prompt with no.
    For several operations zipl issues a confirmation prompt such as "Do you want to continue creating a dump partition (y/n)".
    If the user disagrees, there should be no error indication in the "Operation canceled by user." message.
  • Exit when trying to run zipl on an unknown device type.
  • Skip check for invalid geometry on FBA devices.
  • Fix use after free error when installing a multi-volume dump.

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