On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:11:25AM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> First, the kernel.
> As a policy, we do not release the kernel that comes out with a new 
> release as a security errata.  In this case, the kernel is 
> 2.6.18-238.el5.  This kernel will not go out as a security errata for 
> the other SL5 releases.  We will build it, and it will go into the 5.6 
> alpha, so people can get it there if they want.
>


Hi, guys, I usually ignore this stuff, but this time I happen to know
that kernel 2.6.18-238.el5 has an important update to the driver for
the Marvell 8-port SATA card. The driver in previous kernels did
not work (produced random disk hangs).

Luckily not too many machines are affected - we only have 2 at TRIUMF -
and they will be easy to update to SL5.6 to get this driver fix. (they run
the -223 test kernel right now).

So I am happy with Troy's policy.


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