Chapter 3. Device Drivers

The bnx2i driver has been upgraded to version 2.7.10.1.

The hpsa driver has been upgraded to version 3.4.4-1-RH1.

The bfa driver has been upgraded to version 3.2.23.0.

The mvsas driver has been upgraded to the latest upstream version.

The qla4xxx driver has been upgraded to version 5.03.00.00.06.06-k0.

The mpt2sas driver has been upgraded to version 16.100.00.00.

The qla2xxx driver has been upgraded to version 8.07.00.08.06.6-k.

The bnx2fc driver has been upgraded to version 2.4.2.

The lpfc driver has been upgraded to version 10.2.8020.1.

Device driver ID changes have been implemented for the pm80xx driver to support series 8 controllers.

Configuration parameters have been updated for the be2iscsi driver to support Dual Chute mode.

The version string has been changed for the hpsa driver.

The megaraid_sas driver has been upgraded to the latest upstream version. In addition, its changelog has been updated.

The Brocade BNA driver has been updated to version 3.2.23.0.

The qlcnic driver has been updated to version 5.3.59.

The Emulex be2net driver has been updated to version 10.2.

The bnx2x driver has been updated to utilize the version 7.8.19 firmware.

The qlge driver has been updated to version 1.00.00.34.

A fix has been implemented for the igbvf driver to properly handle 32-bit DMA masks.

A fix has been implemented for the igb driver to properly handle 32-bit DMA masks.

The bnx2 driver has been updated to version 2.2.4.

All Mellanox mlx drivers have been updated to their latest upstream versions.

The i40evf driver has been updated to its latest upstream version.

The i40e driver has been updated to its latest upstream version.

The netxen driver has been updated to version 4.0.82.

The enic driver has been updated to support the Cisco low latency network interface controller.

The ixbevf driver has been updated to the latest upstream version.

The ixbe driver has been updated to the latest upstream version.

The tg3 driver has been updated to version 3.137.

Product naming has been updated for the sfc driver.

The General Public License header and Copyright information have been updated for the e1000e driver.

A cache device mapper target has been added to the dm driver.

The cnic driver has been updated to version 2.5.20. In addition, its copyright year has been updated.

The sb_edac has been updated to support the Haswell microarchitecture-based systems.

The InfiniBand iser driver has been updated to version 1.3.

The InfiniBand srp driver has been updated to the latest upstream version. In addition, its release date information has been updated.

The InfiniBand qib driver has been updated to support Direct Connect Architecture.

The intel_pstate driver has been updated to support Haswell CPU models.

The rtsx driver has been updated to support the Realtek RTL8411B Ethernet controller.

The openvswitch driver has been updated to support the Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) module has been updated to version 3.14.2.

The cnic driver has been updated to version 2.5.20. In addition, its copyright year has been updated.

The hid-multitouch module has been updated to the latest upstream version, adding the support for Windows 8-certified touchescreens.

An update notifier for changes of Open Firmware device tree properties has been implemented into the pseries driver.

The DRBG module has been implemented, introducing a SP800-90A Deterministic Random Bit Generator.

Accelerated computation for the PCLMULQDQ instruction has been implemented into the crct10dif module.

The ccis driver has been updated to the latest upstream version.

The NVMe driver has been updated to include device and queue numbers in interrupt names.

MCE decoding support has been expanded for the mce_amd driver.