megaraid_sas driver version 3.10<->3.13

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:00:51PM +0000, Troels Arvin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:08:33 -0600, Michael_E_Brown wrote (subject 
> "[announce] OMSA 5.3 promoted to repository"):
> >     After a period of testing last week in which no problems were
> >     reported, I have promoted OMSA 5.3 to the default install for the
> >     hardware repository. Everybody who has set up the hardware
> >     repository should receive an update to OMSA 5.3 when they next
> >     upgrade their system.
> 
> After the upgrade, Dell OpenManage Server Administrator's web interface 
> reports this in the alert log for a server which I operate (PE 2950):
> 
>    The current driver version 00.00.03.10 (megaraid_sas) 
>    is older than the required driver version 00.00.03.13 
>    (megaraid_sas) for a controller of model 0x1F03: 
>    Controller 0 (PERC 5/i Integrated)

The driver you need should be in the repository: 'yum install
megaraid_sas'. It is a DKMS driver that should work with most kernels.

> I would very much like to simply keep using the operating system's built-
> in drivers (RHEL 5 with all updates).
> 
> How seriously should I treat the warning? What has happened between v. 
> 3.10 and 3.13 of the megaraid_sas driver?

Sometimes you can read the release notes to find this out. The storage
team occasionally finds crash issues and even-less-often finds data
corruption issues in drivers and implements the driver version check to
avoid those issues. This is usually documented in the release notes.

--
Michael