On 2014-09-08, Mark Tinberg <mtinb...@wisc.edu> wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2014, at 1:35 AM, Keith Keller <kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> > wrote: > > This is why I would say that firmware updates are part of the preventative > maintenance in the same way kernel updates are, if the bug was already fixed > and if you had flashed this during a normal maintenance window you never > would have had an unplanned maintenance to fix or recover from the problem. > Manufacturers don?t tend to update firmware without real bug reports from the > field, why wait until you?ve had a failure due to some already-fixed corner > case.
I do actually read the release notes (sporadically) for my controller firmware releases, at least (usually not BIOS, I admit). If I think I might hit one of their bug fixes then I will schedule an update. --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
