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2.3. Driver Updates
- General Driver Updates
- acpi: updated
ibm_acpi
module to address several ACPI and docking station issues with Lenovo laptops. - ipmi: Polling
kthread
no longer runs when hardware interrupt is assigned to a Baseboard Management Controller. - sata:
SATA/SAS
upgraded to version 2.6.22-rc3. openib
andopenmpi
: upgraded to OFED (OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution) version 1.2.powernow-k8
: upgraded to version 2.0.0 to fully support Greyhound.xinput
: added to enable full RSA support.aic94xx
: upgraded to version 1.0.2-1, in line with an upgrade of the embedded sequencer firmware to v17. These updates apply the following changes:- fixed
ascb
race condition on platforms with expanders - added
REQ_TASK_ABORT
andDEVICE_RESET
handlers - physical ports are now cleaned up properly after a discovery error
phys
can now be enabled and disabled throughsysfs
- extended use of DDB lock to prevent race condition of DDB
- Audio
- ALSA updated to version 1.0.14. This update applies the following fixes:
- fixed noise problem on the IBM Taroko (M50)
- Realtek ALC861 is now supported
- fixed a muting problem on xw8600 and xw6600
- ADI 1884 Audio is now supported
- fixed an audio configuration problem on xw4600
- PCI
- added function calls to set maximum read request size for PCIX and PCI-Express
- IBM System P machines now support PCI-Express hotplugging
- added necessary drivers and PCI ID to support SB600 SMBus
- Network
e1000
driver: updated to version 7.3.20-k2 to support I/OAT-enabled chipsets.bnx2
driver: updated to version 1.5.11 to support 5709 hardware.B44
ethernet driver: backported from upstream version 2.6.22-rc4 to apply the following changes:- several
endianness
fixes were made DMA_30BIT_MASK
constant is now usedskb_copy_from_linear_data_offset()
is now usedspin_lock_irqsave()
now features safer interrupt disabling- simple error checking is performed during resume
- several fixes to multicast were applied
- chip reset now takes longer than previously anticipated
- Marvell
sky2
driver: updated to version 1.14 to fix a bug that causes a kernel panic if theifup
/ifdown
commands are executed repeatedly. forcedeth-0.60
driver: now included in this release. This applies several critical bug fixes for customers using NVIDIA's MCP55 motherboard chipsets and corresponding onboard NIC.ixgb
driver: updated to the latest upstream version (1.0.126).netxen_nic
driver: version 3.4.2-2 added to enable support for NetXen 10GbE network cards.- Chelsio 10G Ethernet Network Controller is now supported.
- added support for PCI error recovery to the
s2io
device. - Broadcomm wireless ethernet driver now supports PCI ID for nx6325 card.
- fixed a bug that caused an
ASSERTION FAILED
error when attempting to start a BCM4306 viaifup
. ixgb
driver: updated to add EEH PCI error recovery support for the Intel 10-gigabit ethernet card. For more information, refer to/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<kernel version>/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
.qla3xxx
driver: re-enabled and updated to version 2.03.00-k3 to provide networking support for QLogic iSCSI adapters without using iSCSI.- Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG network driver: updated to version 1.2.0. This update resolves several issues, including a soft lockup bug that could occur under certain circumstances on some laptops.
qla2xxx
: driver upgraded to version 8.01.07-k6. This applies several changes, most notably:- iIDMA is now supported
- the following Fibre Channel attributes are now supported:
- symbolic nodename
- system hostname
- fabric name
- host port state
- trace-control async events are no longer logged
- reset handling logic has been corrected
- MSI-X is now supported
- IRQ-0 assignments are now handled per system
- NVRAM updates immediately go into effect
- IPMI
- This release includes an update of the
IPMI
driver set to include the upstream changes as of version 2.6.21.3, with some patches included from 2.6.22-rc-4. This update features the following changes (among others):- fixed uninitialized data bug in
ipmi_si_intf
kipmid
is no longer started if another driver supports interrupts- users are now allowed to override the kernel daemon
enable
throughforce_kipmid
- per-channel command registration is now supported
MAX_IPMI_INTERFACES
is no longer used- hot system interface removal is now supported
- added a Maintenance Mode to support firmware updates
- added
poweroff
support for thepigeonpoint
IPMC - BT subdriver can now survive long timeouts
- added
pci_remove
handling for proper cleanup on a hot remove
For information about new module parameters, refer to/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<kernel version>/Documentation/IPMI.txt
. - SCSI
- ported SCSI blacklist from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to this release.
- added PCI IDs for
aic79xx
driver. aacraid
driver: updated to version 1.1.5-2437 to support PRIMERGY RX800S2 and RX800S3.megaraid_sas
driver: updated to version 3.10. This update defines the entry point forbios_param
, adds an IOCTL memory pool, and applies several minor bug fixes.- Emulex
lpfc
driver: updated to version 8.1.10.9. This update applies several changes, most notably:- fixed
host_lock
management in theioctl
paths - the AMD chipset is now automatically detected, and reduced the DMA length to 1024 bytes
- nodes are no longer removed during
dev_loss_tmo
if discovery is active - 8GB link speeds are now enabled
qla4xxx
driver updated to apply the following changes:- added support for IPV6, QLE406x and
ioctl
module - fixed a
mutex_lock
bug that could cause lockups - resolved lockup issues of
qla4xxx
andqla3xxx
when attempting to load/unload either interface
mpt fusion
drivers: updated to version 3.04.04. This update applies several changes, most notably:- fixed several error handling bugs
mptsas
now serializes target resetsmptsas
andmptfc
now support LUNs and targets greater than 255- fixed an LSI
mptspi
driver regression that resulted in extremely slow DVD driver performance - when an LSI SCSI device returns a
BUSY
status, I/O attempts no longer fail after several retries - RAID arrays are no longer unavailable after auto-rebuild
arcmsr
driver: included to provide support for Areca RAID controllers.3w-9xxx
module: updated to correctly support 3ware 9650SE.