[elrepo] Kmod compatibility with RHEL 7.1

[Phil Perry]

On 05/03/15 17:22, Phil Perry wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As most of you will have noticed, Red Hat have today released RHEL 7.1.
> 
> Unfortunately, after some preliminary testing we have identified a
> number of kmod packages in elrepo that are not kABI compatible with the
> RHEL 7.1 kernel (kernel-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64).
> 
> The following packages in the elrepo repository are not currently
> compatible with the RHEL 7.1 kernel:
> 
> kmod-accraid
> kmod-ar5523
> kmod-ath5k
> kmod-ax88179_178a
> kmod-drbd84
> kmod-e1000e
> kmod-ixgbe
> kmod-nvidia
> kmod-nvidia-304xx
> kmod-nvidia-340xx
> kmod-reiserfs
> kmod-rr62x
> kmod-rr64xl
> kmod-rts5139
> kmod-sym53c8xx
> kmod-xpad
> kmod-zd1211rw
> 
> Further, some packages once rebuilt against the RHEL 7.1 kernel are then
> not backward compatible with earlier 7.0 kernels. This effectively means
> users will want to update their kmods at the same time as updating their
> kernel.
> 
> What I propose to do is to rebuild the above packages against the RHEL
> 7.1 kernel and push them to the testing repository (packages that are
> backward compatible could be pushed straight to the main repository).
> 
> We recommend that users update to 7.1 and then update any affected kmod
> packages from the elrepo-testing repository. Users still on 7.0 will
> still have the current versions available.
> 
> Once the main clones have released their 7.1 offerings the above
> packages can be moved from the testing repository to the main elrepo
> repository.
> 
> To prevent users accidentally installing a kmod on 7.0 that was built
> against 7.1 and is not backward compatible with 7.0, we will add
> Requires for the 7.1 kernel.
> 
> Any comments / thoughts?
> 
> Phil
> 

All packages that required rebuilding against the RHEL 7.1 kernel have
been moved from the testing repository to the main elrepo repository.
Packages are currently syncing to the mirrors and should be available
shortly.

None of these packages are backward compatible with the RHEL 7.0 kernel.
All packages have a Requires for the 7.1 kernel to prevent users
accidentally updating who are still on 7.0.

Users will need to update affected kmod packages at the same time as
updating from 7.0 to 7.1.

Thanks,

Phil