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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:47:03 +0200
From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Subject: Re: Pid: 8345, comm: rsync Not tainted 2.6.32.22intel #1
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Le Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:30:22 +0100
Larsen, Tore H=F8ivaag <tore.hoivaag.larsen@cggveritas.com> =E9crivait:

> 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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