[elrepo] More 7.4 incompatible drivers

[Nick Howitt]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for these. I'll get them built as soon as possible then try to 
track down the people who requested them to test.

Regards,

Nick

On 2017-10-02 21:04, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 01/10/17 20:12, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 01/10/17 17:04, Nick Howitt wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> 
>>> I've been through all the kmod drivers I've compiled for 7.3 and 
>>> tried compiling them against ClearOS 7.4. Four of them have failed to 
>>> compile:
>>> ath10k
>> 
>> ath10k was included in RHEL from 7.3 onwards so we have deprecated our 
>> driver in favour of the distro kernel driver.
>> 
>>> ne2k-pci
>> 
>> ne2k-pci should be the same fix as via-rhine.
>> 
>>> r8169
>> 
>> again, looks like the same fix as via-rhine.
>> 
>>> rtl8723be
>> 
>> rtl8723be was included in RHEL from 7.3 onwards so we have deprecated 
>> our driver in favour of the distro kernel driver.
>> 
>> I'll look to push out updates for ne2k-pci and r8169.
>> 
>> In addition to those above, I note from grepping my source code tree 
>> the following drivers may also be affected by the 'trans_start' issue:
>> 
>> 3c59x
>> lan78xx
>> mptfc
>> sis900
>> 
>> although 3 of the 4 do weak link against 7.4 series kernels. I will 
>> most likely wait for bug reports and fix them should they arise.
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
> 
> I've rebuilt the following ethernet drivers against RHEL 7.4.
> kmod-ne2k-pci needed rebuilding as it was not compatible with 7.4, and
> for the others I've taken the opportunity to fix build errors when
> rebuilding against RHEL 7.4, but otherwise haven't updated the driver.
> 
> kmod-3c59x-0.0-3.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-ne2k-pci-1.03-3.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-r8169-6.020.00-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-sis900-1.08.10-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> 
> Packages are currently syncing to the main elrepo repository.
> 
> Phil
> 
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