Release Notes

Installer displays an exception when installing on an
iSCSI disk using QLogic QL41000 qedi based drivers
Description: A system with QLogic QL41000 qedi based drivers, during the installation of RHEL 7.4 on an iSCSI disk
using the qedi transport, installer displays an exception message.
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
Cause:
Boot from iSCSI using the qedi based driver offload function does not work on RHEL 7.4 because the
following patches are missing in the qedi driver due to which RHEL-7.4 has no enablement for the card:
●
qed: Inform qedi the number of possible CQs
● qed: Correct order of wwnn and wwpn
●
qed: Share additional information with qedf
● qed: Support NVM-image reading API
●
qedi: Add support for offload iSCSI Boot
Workaround: There is no workaround that is currently available for this issue.
Progress bar is not displayed while copying a file from
USB drive to Desktop
Description:
When you are copying a file from a USB drive to Desktop, progress bar is not displayed in RHEL 7.4.
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
Cause:
In the GNOME Desktop, Nautillus has a new “per window” notification system. If you copy a file from one
window to another window, you will see a progress bar in both the source and destination window. But
when you copy or move a file to the desktop, nautilus package transfers the functionality to Nautilus–
desktop package which does not display any progress or status because it does not have any UI
operation. If copying or moving a file is not successful, then the failure message is displayed.
Workaround: These error messages can be ignored because these are only cosmetic errors.
Link flap messages are displayed during the device
probe for QL41xxx devices
Description:
On RHEL 7.4 system, link flap messages are displayed in dmesg during device probe for QL41xxx devices.
Many link up and link down messages are displayed in the OS log which are not expected.
Applies to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
Cause: The link flap messages are displayed only during driver probe, link settles to Link UP at the end and it
does not change. The final state of the link is Link is up.
Workaround: This error message can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
28 Known issues