Pid: 8345, comm: rsync Not tainted 2.6.32.22intel #1

Emmanuel Florac eflorac at intellique.com
Tue Oct 26 06:47:03 CDT 2010


Le Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:30:22 +0100
Larsen, Tore Høivaag <tore.hoivaag.larsen at cggveritas.com> écrivait:

> You should keep the driver and firmware ins sync wither kernel.
> Choose e.g. latest 9.4.3 iso for 2.6.9, and 9.5.3 for
> RHEL5/SLES11/Fedora13. Do not use 9.5.3 firmware with RHEL4/SLES10
> native driver. If I remeber correctly tw_update doesn't even let you
> mix a downgrade driver with new firmware, and vs.versus.

Yes, it will complain in case your driver/api isn't compatible with the
newer firmware. Of course, only actually upgrade if it tells you :
"proceed to update".

However I'm pretty sure 2.6.23 is safe for 4.x firmware (2.6.24
definitely is).

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