[elrepo-devel] kmod-forcedeth for el7

[Matthew Gyurgyik]

Woops, just noticed package requests should go in the bug tracker.

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=487

Sorry for the noise!

On 07/08/2014 09:27 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Today I attempted to install EL7 on some consumer grade hardware and
> discovered that Redhat has removed the forcedeth network module in EL7.
>
> I am not sure how you all decide which modules get added to elrepo, but
> I have created a kmod-forcedeth package, heavily based on kmod-e1000.el7.
>
> The srpm can be found here:
> http://pyther.net/files/el7/forcedeth-kmod-0.64-1.el7.centos.src.rpm
>
> forcedeth-0.64.tar.gz was tar'd from
> linux-3.12.24/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia.
>
> Makefile was modified from:
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_FORCEDETH) += forcedeth.o
>
> to
>
> obj-m += forcedeth.o
>
> kmodtool-forcedeth-el7.sh was copied from kmodtool-e1000e-el7.sh. I
> commented out 'echo "%doc /usr/share/man/man7/"' as there are no man
> pages for this module.
>
> It would be awesome if you can add this to elrepo. However, I would
> completely understand if it is inappropriate to add deprecated  (by
> redhat) modules.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Gyurgyik
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