[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 Updated kernel-ml Release [Version 2.6.37-0.3.el5.elrepo]

[Phil Perry]

On 14/02/11 21:15, Steve Clark wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 03:08 PM, Nikki Locke wrote:
>> Oh rats! If I had know that, I probably wouldn't have started down
>> this road.
>>
>> I guess I just have to finally give in, and accept that my brand new
>> USB3.0 disk is not suitable for use on Linux, and I should install it
>> on a Windows machine instead :-(
>>
>> Would you be able to explain the logic of el-repo kmod packages not
>> supporting the el-repo kernels?
>>
>> Nikki
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org
>> <mailto:phil at elrepo.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 14/02/11 18:15, Nikki Locke wrote:
>> > Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Nikki
>> Locke<nikki at trumphurst.com <mailto:nikki at trumphurst.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> [root at woc ~]# yum --enablerepo=elrepo update kernel-ml
>> kernel-ml-devel
>> >>
>> >> Please try with --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel (instead of =elrepo).
>> >
>> > Duh!
>> >
>> > Thanks - that's sorted it.
>> >
>> > Next question - will the el-repo fglrx load into the new kernel
>> automatically
>> > (I have it doing so on the stock kernel)?
>> >
>>
>>
>
> If you are using kernel-ml-2.6.37-0.3.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm it should have
> all the latest and
> greatest drivers shouldn't it?
>

Yes to the USB3 drivers, but no for proprietary drivers such as those 
from ATI (fglrx) that Nikki was referring to.

BTW, Akemi found an interesting thread on kerneltrap here between Sarah 
Sharp who wrote and maintains the xHCI driver (USB3) in the Linux kernel 
and Don Zickus who is a senior kernel engineer with Red Hat:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-usb/2010/7/16/6262852/thread