The RHEL 9.5 kernel logs a warning that the hfi1 driver is unmaintained

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5

Issue

When you load the hfi1 module, the kernel logs:

Warning: Unmaintained driver is detected: hfi1

Resolution

The logged warning on RHEL 9.5 is incorrect. The hfi1 module is maintained.
A future update for RHEL 9.5 will remove the incorrect warning when the module is loaded.

Diagnostic Steps

# dmesg | grep "hfi1"
[   65.023939] Warning: Unmaintained driver is detected: hfi1

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