What is the purpose of "kernel-firmware" "bfa-firmware" "kernel-headers" packages and is it necessary to downgrade these packages while downgrading kernel ?
Issue
- Is it mandatory to downgrade below three supplementary kernel packages along with kernel downgrade.
- kernel-firmware-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.noarch
- bfa-firmware-3.0.3.1-1.el6.noarch
- kernel-headers-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64
- What is the use of these supplementary kernel packages?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All releases)
- kernel-firmware
- bfa-firmware
- kernel-headers
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