[elrepo] el7: Intel Braswell i2c host adapter support

[Phil Perry]

On 02/02/16 06:23, Björn Gerhart wrote:
>> Am 21.01.2016 um 17:27 schrieb Björn Gerhart <gerhart at posteo.de>:
>>
>>> Am 18.01.2016 um 20:17 schrieb Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org>:
>>>
>>> The elrepo standard where a module is backported from an upstream kernel
>>> is the use any internal module versioning if present or version 0.0 as
>>> in this case if no versioning information is provided. Thus the version
>>> will never indicate the kernel it is backported from. The changelog
>>> should always say which kernel the module was backported from, in this
>>> case kernel-4.1.15, so that's where users should look for that information.
>>>
>>> So this module will likely progress as 0.0-1, 0.0-2, 0.0-3 etc for each
>>> new release.
>>>
>>> The nct6775 example you refer to is slightly different as it is not
>>> backported from the upstream kernel but is maintained out of the kernel
>>> tree in a separate git repository, thus we use the git date notation to
>>> indicate the date the source code was pulled from the git tree.
>>>
>>> Hope that makes sense
>>>
>> Yes it does, sounds good. Thanks for explaining.
>>
>>> If you file a bug with Red Hat I'd appreciate if you could post a link
>>> here so I may follow it. If we can get native support added to the RHEL
>>> kernel then we can deprecate our kmod package.
>>>
>> Ok, opened an issue on Red Hat’s Bugzilla - although it’s a kind of change request and not a real bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300200
>> I’ll keep an eye on it and inform the list once it gets fixed.
>>
> Last Thursday Red Hat has closed the issue with resolution: NOTABUG. The related comment is: Intel Braswell (6,76) is not currently supported on RHEL7.
> 
> Best - Björn
> 

Yes, I saw.

Thanks anyway for trying.