We will be looking into the issue, but I'm just letting you know the process of how to file bugs and get fixes most quickly.
Also, the X710 is our first product (of many) that has much of the functionality in the firmware. You need to update them both and the driver just hands off requests to the firmware. Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Datacenter Engineering Group Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com -----Original Message----- From: Pavlos Parissis [mailto:pavlos.paris...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 3:32 PM To: Fujinaka, Todd <todd.fujin...@intel.com>; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
