Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - RELEASE NOTES 2010 Release Note page 8

Release Notes
Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Driver
The lpfc driver for Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs has been updated to version 8.2.0.63.3p.
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LSI SAS-2 family of adapters
The mpt2sas driver that supports the SAS-2 family of adapters from LSI has been updated to version
02.101.00.00. This update fixes many issues, most notably:
• Sanity checks have been added when volumes are added and removed, ignoring events for foreign
volumes.
• driver is now legacy I/O port free
• An issue that may have resulted in a kernel oops at hibernation or resume has been fixed.
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LSI Fusion MPT
The mptque base driver for devices using LSI Fusion MPT firmware has been updated to version
3.4.13rh. This update fixes many issues, most notably:
• The serial attached SCSI (SAS) topology scan has been restructured, adding expander, link status
and host bus adapter (HBA) events.
• Intermittent issues caused by SAS cable removal and reinsertion have been fixed.
• An issue where SATA devices received different SAS addresses has been fixed.
• The device firmware now reports the queue full event to the driver and the driver handles the queue
full event using the SCSI mid-layer.
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LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers
The megaraid_sas driver for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers has been updated to version 4.17-RH1.
This update fixes many issues, most notably:
• An issue during firmware boot and initialization has been fixed.
• An issue that resulted in devices hanging during hibernation has been fixed.
• The driver now auto updates the device when added or deleted.
• MegaRAID SAS driver is now legacy I/O port free
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=515272
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=516702
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=516710
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