After upgrading the RHEL kernel,the system is unable to locate the storage device used by qla2xxx

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Issue

After upgrading the kernel to a new version the system is unable to locate the storage device. Boot up gives the error "device: error getting device" and multipath gives "error adding device to map".

Environment

  • QLogic Corp. QLA2xxx Fibre Channel Adapter
  • qla2xxx third party vendor module
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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