Advisories » MGAA-2019-0154

Updated kernel packages provides 5.3 series

Publication date: 06 Oct 2019
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 7

Description

This update provides an upgrade to 5.3 series kernels, currently based on
upstream 5.3.2, adding/improving support for various hardware and other
features. For more details about this, read the referenced changelogs.

It also fixes a a regression introduced in 5.2 series with megaraid driver
on at least some Dell servers where the raid controller fails to detect the
harddisks with the following errors being shown: 'Allocation failure during
SCSI scanning, some SCSI devices might not be configured' (mga#25469).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25517
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25469
• https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.3
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.1
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.2

SRPMS

7/core

• kernel-5.3.2-1.mga7
• kmod-virtualbox-6.0.12-2.mga7
• kmod-xtables-addons-3.5-2.mga7
• ldetect-lst-0.6.5-1.mga7