[elrepo] More 7.4 incompatible drivers

Nick Howitt nick at howitts.co.uk
Tue Oct 3 03:06:15 EDT 2017


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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