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[Phil Perry]

Nikolay Ulyanitsky wrote:
> 
> 2. sis190
> This package provides the sis190 kernel module for the
> SiS 191/190 PCI Gigabit/Fast Ethernet Adapter.
> Additional information:
> * Official driver from SiS.
> * Tested on real hardware with CentOS 5.3 i386 - works just fine.
> * Backported sis190-kmod-1.3-1.el5.elrepo is buggy - kernel panic on
> module loading.
> 

Hi Nikolay,

Apologies for the delay... I've finally got around to looking at your 
sis190 package based on the sis source code. One slight problem I see is 
version numbering. My original package was v1.3, based on the version of 
the source backported from the Linux kernel. The version of the sis 
source code is 1.00.00 which creates an obvious problem within the repo 
in shipping an "older" version.

Our policy is to use the original source version where possible, and if 
no version information is available then to start at 0.00-1.el5.elrepo.

So what to do in this case? Nikolay reports above that my original 
backported v1.3 driver is buggy causing a kernel panic, so I'm assuming 
it's not actually in use. Thus I would propose we just scrap it and 
replace with v1.00.00 despite that being an "older" version number.

Assuming no one has any objections, or better solutions, I'll build the 
package now and get it shipped to elrepo-testing. If anyone can test it 
(Nikolay??) then we'll push it out to the main repo and deprecate v1.3. 
Note v1.3 in also in elrepo-testing so the new "older" version won't get 
picked up by yum from the repo, you'll have to download and manually 
install with rpm.

Regards,

Phil