[elrepo] Request aic7xxx for RHEL 7

[Clark Hale]

On 09/24/2015 01:15 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Clark Hale <chale at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi EL Repo,
>>
>> I'd like to request packaging for the aic7xxx module for RHEL7.
>>
>> My specific device is:
>> 03:00.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AHA-2940/2940W / AIC-7871 [9004:7178]
>>
>> I'm fairly certain this is in the aic7xxx module, which was deprecated in RHEL7 :(
> 
> I confirm that the aic7xxx driver is not in RHEL 7 and your device
> [9004:7178] is not supported in 7.x kernels.
> 
> Could you test-install ELRepo's kernel-ml on your system and see if
> your device works? If it does, we might try backporting the driver
> from there.
> 

I installed kernel-ml.  My SCSI controller appears to be working correctly.

I only have one SCSI device on this host (an old Magneto Optical drive),
so my testing is somewhat limited.

Thanks,

-CFH