On 26/10/2017 12:13 πμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > This is just about the last part of your post, about the 4.9 kernel and > CentOS. > > Are you using the stable 4.9 kernel or are you hoping patches get pulled into > the CentOS 4.9 kernel?
We use vanilla kernel without any patches. > If it's the latter, you need to file a bug with Red Hat > to have the patches pulled into RHEL, and then CentOS should get those changes > as well. We have no direct control on the RHEL/CentOS kernels. > > If it's the former, someone (most likely you, since you're the one who needs > the patches) has to identify the patches that should be pulled into the stable > 4.9 kernel and email the maintainer of the stable kernels. > Is anyone planning to look at the errors messages squeaked from the driver? May be the issue I am reporting isn't something new. I can't believe I am the only one who observed that sort of instability. > I never said Intel is not monitoring the communities. I said the networking > group is not monitoring the communities. At the very least, I am not > monitoring > the communities at all and only look when someone points things out to me. > > Also, if you're running HP hardware, you may want to file a bug with HP as the > firmware updates have to come from HP and this may be a firmware issue. > That would be the least helpful thing as they simply refuse to do anything for drivers that don't maintain. I have been running production servers for ~20 years and HP support is helpful only for the stuff they develop. As far as the firmware version, we only install the firmware they provide, which is always one version behind from the one provided by Intel and if we install firmware from Intel then we lose support. Furthermore, HP does not care about 4.9 kernel, they only know the kernel that is provided by CentOS. I don't think going down the road of contacting HP support for errors reported by a network driver is the best approach. Thanks, Pavlos
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