Re: 4.5 upgrades on production servers?

[Matt Hyclak <hyclak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:54:12PM -0400, Steve Thompson enlightened us:
> >I upgraded to 4.5 without any problems, but I did have to account for the 
> >fact that the new kernel can potentially reorder NICs on certain HP and 
> >Dell servers, so all was well after I switched the network cable...
> >See:  http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_46_10460.shtm
> 
> I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to introduce such a major change in a 
> _patch release_?
> 

This has already been hashed out on the nahant-list. Someone from Redhat
gave an explanation. I will leave it up to you to decided if the explanation
is satisfactory to you or not.

Matt

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