[elrepo-devel] kmod-forcedeth for el7

[Phil Perry]

Hi Matthew,

On 09/07/14 02:53, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
> Woops, just noticed package requests should go in the bug tracker.
> 
> http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=487
> 
> Sorry for the noise!
> 

No problem, here is fine too :-)

> 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.
>>

Yes, we were just looking at older ethernet drivers that had been
disabled in rhel7 the other day...

>> 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.
>>

we decide on a need basis - if someone asks for it then we will build it
(if we can).

>> 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.
>>

Rather than backporting from a 3.12.x kernel, I will probably use the
3.10.x kernel branch for two reasons:

Firstly 3.10 is a longterm support kernel so will receive patches for
quite a while yet, and secondly it's the same kernel branch that rhel7
is based off. For an old driver like forcedeth, we shouldn't need the
very latest and using 3.10 should make it easier to support going forward.

>> 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.
>>

Great work, and many thanks.

We actually have template files linked on our homepage and on GitHub,
but using another existing package as a template, as you have done, is
just as good.

I'll try to get this package built and released to the testing
repository today. If you could test and confirm it works as expected
then I'll push it out to the main elrepo repository. I'll post back to
this thread when it's ready.

Regards,

Phil