[elrepo] Without the mptfc.ko for centos 7

[Randy Li]

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> Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> 於 2017年5月3日 下午11:56 寫道：
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>> 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.
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> Looks like mptfc.ko was deprecated by Red Hat in RHEL6:
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> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_
Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migration_Planning_Guide/sect-
packages-deprecated-drivers.html
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> 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.
I see.
> There is no reason not to backport and maintain it yourself in RHEL7,
simply RH have chosen not to.
Well this adapter is very cheap, and suitable for the home usage fibre
network.
Also I have had that adapter and linux kernel doesn't drop the supporting
of it, right ?
The one problem is that whether EL repo would or would not accept it.
Is there any guide about adding a new kernel modules packages for RHEL?
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