[Q] What's the story with MPT Fusion driver versioning?

[Maurice Volaski]

The LSI website distributes three MPT Fusion driver packages on its 
website, each with a different version number, 2.06.77.00, 
3.13.04.00, and 4.00.43.00. They seem to be tied to specific RedHat 
and SUSE releases and clearly one of them had been built for an 
earlier kernel.

However, the numbering is wholly out of step with the version in the 
mainline kernel, which is presently 3.04.07. By that measure, 
one--even LSI tech support--might think it is grossly outdated, but, 
in fact, the website packages are dated 8/20/08, which suggests the 
opposite.

On top of that, LSI's tech support insists that the driver in the 
mainline kernel isn't "certified," and, therefore, they can't support 
it, which doesn't seem to make much sense.
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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