[elrepo] Without the mptfc.ko for centos 7

[Phil Perry]

On 03/05/17 14:13, Randy Li wrote:
> Hello all
>  I recently bought a LSI FC949ES (LSI 7204EP-LC) fibre channel adapter.
> And I installed it in my HP DL 380e g8 server. I found there is a module
> for that adapter, but there is no such package for centos 7. Could
> someone tell me why it is not supported(not stable ?).
> If there is nothing special, I would try to port it into centos 7.
>
>

Looks like mptfc.ko was deprecated by Red Hat in RHEL6:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migration_Planning_Guide/sect-packages-deprecated-drivers.html

and as such is not supported in RHEL7. I'm guessing the reason is it's 
old and considered end of life, and RH doesn't wish to keep backporting 
fixes for the next 10+ years. There is no reason not to backport and 
maintain it yourself in RHEL7, simply RH have chosen not to.