[CentOS] CentOS5, kernel update and 3ware driver

Wed Apr 18 00:31:41 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Florin Andrei wrote:
> The system _appears_ to work fine with the updated kernel and the driver 
> module from 3ware that was made for the original kernel. But this is a 
> machine that is supposed to be very reliable, so I'm wondering, do I 
> have to rebuild the driver for the new kernel, or can I just use the 
> existing driver version without problems?
> The emphasis here is on reliability.
> 

just as these .ko worked fine in centos-4 from kernel to kernel, they 
should really continue to work fine in centos-5, you wont need to 
rebuild them at all, till such time as this driver gets adopted upstream 
into the distro kernel and you dont need it anymore :)

- KB

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