[CentOS] Latest 6.2 kernel is broken

Wed Apr 25 09:45:21 UTC 2012
Peter Kjellström <cap at nsc.liu.se>

On Tuesday 24 April 2012 16.05.26 Ned Slider wrote:
> On 24/04/12 15:56, Lars Hecking wrote:
> > Peter Kjellstr??m writes:
> >> On Monday 23 April 2012 17.54.33 Lars Hecking wrote:
...
> >>> bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw"
> >> 
> >> This is because you have the kmod-bnx2 package which contains a newer
> >> driver (2.2.1) but not a complete set of firmwares (two out of five
> >> files missing).>> 
...
> >> This machine is using the normal bnx2 driver (2.1.11) for which there is
> >> a
> >> complete set of firmwares (provided by the kernel-firmware package).
> >> 
> >   Spot on - the working machine did not have kmod-bnx2 installed.
> >> 
> >> If you don't need the 2.2.1 driver I suggest you remove the kmod-bnx2
> >> package from the first machine and fall back to the driver in the normal
> >> kernel package.
> >> 
> >   Installing without kmod-bnx2 worked, and I also had to get rid of
> >   kmod-cnic, which /tmp/yum.log listed as requiring kmod-bnx2.
> 
> This is fixed in RHEL6.3 (beta) where the kernel-firmware package
> contains the latest firmware that you are missing above:

To be clear, there is no bug/problem in the kernel-firmware package in 6.2. 
This thread is about the behaviour of a driver update (kmod-bnx2) with its own 
(incomplete) set of firmware. As you point out, 6.3 will have the new driver 
and its firmware.

...
> In the meantime (as a workaround), just grab the missing firmware and
> place it in the appropriate directory.

No, in the meantime don't install kmod-bnx2 unless you need it, it's not meant 
as a general update for the kernel provided bnx2.

/Peter
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