Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual page 121

RHSA-2010:0178: Important Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 kernel security and bug fix update
• fixup problems with vlans and bonding
• ixgbe: upstream update to include 82599-KR support
• be2net: multiple bug fixes
• virtio_net: fix tx wakeup race condition
• Add support for send/receive tracepoints.
• wireless: fix build when using O=objdir
• update tg3 driver to version 3.100
• e1000e: support for 82567V-3 and MTU fixes
• bonding: add debug module option
• ipv4: fix possible invalid memory access
• s2io: update driver to current upstream version
• wireless: report reasonable bitrate for 802.11n
• mac80211: report correct signal for non-dBm values
• wireless: Remove some unnecessary warning messages. mac80211: avoid uninit pointer
dereference in ieee80211.
• wireless: avoid deadlock when enabling rfkill
• wireless: updates of mac80211 etc from 2.6.32 and wireless support updates from 2.6.32
870
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• bnx2: update to version 2.0.2
• cnic: Update driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
• bnx2x: Update to 1.52.1-5, add support for bcm8727 phy, add support for bcm8727 phy, add mdio
support, add firmware version 5.2.7.0 and update to 1.52.1.
• mdio: Add mdio module from upstream and ethtool. Add more defines for mdio to use. Add the sfc
BZ#448856
(Solarflare) driver.
• r8169: update to latest upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
• benet: update driver to latest upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
• e1000e: update and fix WOL issues
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• e1000: update to latest upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
• mlx4: update to recent version with SRIOV support
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• ipv4: fix an unexpectedly freed skb in tcp
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