[elrepo] lirc_serial recommendation?

[Phil Perry]

On 04/01/15 14:03, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>> On 04/01/15 01:08, Wade Berrier wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> What is the recommended way to install or build an lirc_serial package?
>>> It's in the kernel staging area.
>>>
>>> I see that fedora ships staging drivers, but not enterprise linux.
>>>
>>> I'm specifically interested in el7.
>>>
>>> Recommendations to proceed?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Wade
> 
>> Hi Wade,
>>
>> We have two options. We can either build the modules within a kernel or
>> build them as standalone kmod (kernel module) packages.
>>
>> If you are a CentOS user we could ask Akemi if she would consider
>> enabling these modules within the CentOS-Plus kernel - that is an el7
>> kernel maintained by the CentOS project within which they have the
>> flexibility to enable drivers (or apply patches) that Red Hat have
>> chosen to ignore.
>>
>> The other option is that elrepo builds the driver as a standalone kmod
>> package for you, backported from the latest 3.10.x kernel.
> 
> The kmod option is the way to go whenever possible.
> 
> The source code that is not enabled in the RHEL kernel is not being
> maintained (updated), so it might have bugs and security issues.
> Fedora is a moving target and its kernel is much newer.
> 
> In addition, kmods can serve the whole EL community better. Switching
> the kernel to the centosplus kernel may not be trivial if you are not
> a CentOS user.
> 
> Of course this does not mean I am unwilling to enable it in the plus
> kernel. I will do that if a request is made. Then people can have a
> choice. :)
> 
> Akemi

Thanks Akemi.

I'll see if I can make a kmod package for this later today and get it
out into the testing repository.

Phil