After doing a yum update I notice these (W)arnings

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Wed Dec 2 03:58:32 UTC 2009


On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:08:35 -0500
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:

> Chris writes:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > After doing a yum update I notice these (W)arnings?
> > 
> > ** Snip **
> > Updating : abrt-gui-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 35/79 
> > Updating : coreutils-7.6-7.fc12.i686 36/79 
> > Installing : kernel-PAE-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 37/79 
> > W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> > W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
> > 
> > Is this something I need to be concerned about?
> 
> Only if you have either the "QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver" or the 
> "Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA" driver in your server.
> 
> Unless you're using these two, this has no impact. And if you did
> have one of these, it wouldn't already be working for you, since you
> still don't have the requisite firmware to load, even with your
> existing kernel.

Thanks Sam. I appreciate it. I assumed the same but wanted to get
feedback.


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Chris

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