[elrepo-devel] kmod-forcedeth for el7

[Phil Perry]

On 09/07/14 08:15, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi Matthew,

The following packages have just been pushed to the elrepo testing
repository:

forcedeth-kmod-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.src.rpm
kmod-forcedeth-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el7/x86_64/RPMS/

Please test and report if they work as expected.

You can install this package with:

yum --enable-repo=elrepo-testing install kmod-forcedeth

Please uninstall any previous packages first.

Many thanks