Release Notes

Cause: The qedf driver which is responsible for FCoE Ooading on Qlogic FastLinQ cards fails to start fcoe function
because more command queues are requested than actually available.
Solution: You must rst boot into the kISO (kernel ISO) image to start installation and when prompted, insert the SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 3 DVD to continue the installation.
You can nd the kISO Image at https://drivers.suse.com/suse/installer-update/sle-12-sp3-x86_64/3.0/install-
readme.html.
An error message is displayed while disconnecting the
NVMe over FC target and initiator using Emulex
LPe32000 or LPe31000-series card
Description: Using Emulex LPe32000/LPe31000-series cards for NVMe over FC, connecting to target is successful from
initiator, but while disconnecting target by entering command nvme disconnect --device /dev/
<device_name> from initiator, dmesg displays an error message and subsequent connections to the target fail.
Cause: Few feature patches are missing in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 3 GM kernel.
Workaround: Update the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 3 kernel to at least kernel-
default-4.4.92-6.18.1 version and multipath-tools to latest available version.
SRIOV VFs of Mellanox cards interfaces are named
incorrectly
Description:
On Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with Mellanox ConnectX Network cards, if SRIOV is enabled and VFs are
created, the network interfaces are displayed incorrectly.
Cause: There is a race condition between the Virtual Function link creation in sysfs and calling the mlx_5core driver. The
Virtual Function links should be created in sysfs before calling the driver to avoid the race condition.
Workaround: Disable biosdevname by entering boot parameter biosdevname=0. This leads to systemd naming of
interfaces.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 displays an error
message in /var/log/messages
Description:
After restarting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, the PCIe devices display an error message in the /var/log/
messages log le kernel: pci 0000:01:00.0: can't claim BAR 6 [mem
0xfff80000-0xffffffff pref]: no compatible bridge window.
Cause: The addresses of the expansion ROM BARs do not contain accurate values.
Workaround: This error message can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
During boot sfc driver reports debug messages
Description:
sfc driver in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 2 (SLES 12 SP2) reports few debug messages during
boot with the SFN8522 card.
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