Yes, firmware images are in the initrd. I have verified that. Thanks Babu Moger -----Original Message----- From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Holland Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:46 AM To: device-mapper development Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [dm-devel] RE: qla2xxx 0000:03:0c.0: Firmware image unavailable On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:20:48AM -0700, Moger, Babu wrote: > You are right. Looks like qlogic driver loads even before udev hotplug > is functional. Driver loads successfully when I re-load the driver > after the system in up. Is there any solution or work-around for this > problem? So the problem only happens at boot time? Are you using an initrd, and if so, have you got the firmware images in the initrd image? (mkinitramfs, update-initramfs, etc) Dave -- ** Dave Holland ** Systems Support -- Infrastructure Management ** ** 01223 496923 ** The Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK ** "Your bumper is my crumple zone." -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html