[elrepo] el7: Intel Braswell i2c host adapter support

[Phil Perry]

On 15/01/16 17:16, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Björn Gerhart <gerhart at posteo.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> afaik the el7 kernel yet doesn't support the i2c host adapter of the
>> Braswell chipset by Intel. However, it's possible to simply compile a newer
>> release (taken from 3.19) of the i2c-i801 source code against the el7
>> kernel, and the module seems to work properly.
>>
>> Is anybody out there already working on a kmod-i2c-i801 rpm package, or
>> otherwise: does it make sense to contribute it for general availability in
>> elrepo?
>>
>> General rpmbuild knowledge available on my side, but not into contributing
>> for elrepo yet.
>>
>> Best - Björn
>>
> 
> We always welcome contributions.
> 
> You can send it to us as an srpm file. Or if you are comfortable with git,
> please submit it through our git ( https://github.com/elrepo/packages ) by
> following the procedure shown in http://elrepo.org/tiki/GitHub .
> 
> Thank you,
> Akemi
> 
> 

Or this is something I could pick up for you, if you're happy to assist
/ test as you've already done most of the hard work by confirming that
the kernel-3.19 source code compiles cleanly and works.

The only thing I'd add is I'd rather run with code backported from a
kernel that is still supported longterm so we can easily continue to
backport any upstream security fixes and maintain the package in elrepo.
Thus, either 3.18 (if it contains support), or 4.1 (if it compiles
cleanly) kernels would be possible candidates. Your thoughts welcome as
you clearly have more experience with the module code than me.

Of course if you'd like to get involved with elrepo and maintain the
package then we'd more than welcome that, and help you with the process,
but it's not required to make a contribution.

Regards,

Phil