[elrepo] Via-rhine driver on 7.4

[Nick Howitt]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for looking at it.

I must apologise as I forgot to mention I am using ClearOS which has a 
slightly different kernel from RHEL/Centos (IMQ is patched in).

The original poster on our forums posted back to say the kernel upgrade 
+ symlinks then worked on his three subsequent systems as did 
reinstalling the compiled rpm on the system where the symlinks weren't 
created. Reference 
<https://www.clearos.com/clearfoundation/social/community/clearos-7-4-beta#reply-190091>. 
He has the same problems compiling, but at least the drivers compiled 
under 7.3 appear to be working on 7.4.

Regards,

Nick

On 30/09/2017 12:12, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 29/09/17 19:42, Nick Howitt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've had a report that this driver does not set up the weak-updates 
>> symlinks when upgrading from a 7.3 kernel to a 7.4 kernel but is 
>> seems to function OK you you create the symlinks yourself. I've tried 
>> compiling the 1.5.1-2 source against the 7.4 kernel and it also fails 
>> with:
>>
>>     make: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.v7.x86_64'
>>        CC [M] /home/build/rpmbuild/BUILD/via-rhine-1.5.1/via-rhine.o
>>     /home/build/rpmbuild/BUILD/via-rhine-1.5.1/via-rhine.c: In function
>>     'rhine_reset_task':
>> /home/build/rpmbuild/BUILD/via-rhine-1.5.1/via-rhine.c:1638:5:
>>     error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'trans_start'
>>        dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
>>           ^
>>     make[1]: ***
>>     [/home/build/rpmbuild/BUILD/via-rhine-1.5.1/via-rhine.o] Error 1
>>     make: *** [_module_/home/build/rpmbuild/BUILD/via-rhine-1.5.1] 
>> Error 2
>>     make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.v7.x86_64'
>>     error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32hFWR (%build)
>>
>>
>>     RPM build errors:
>>          via-rhine-kmod-1.5.1-2.el7.elrepo.src.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1
>>     Signature, key ID baadae52: NOKEY
>>          user phil does not exist - using root
>>          group phil does not exist - using root
>>          user phil does not exist - using root
>>          group phil does not exist - using root
>>          user phil does not exist - using root
>>          group phil does not exist - using root
>>          user phil does not exist - using root
>>          group phil does not exist - using root
>>          Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32hFWR (%build)
>>
>> Have you any idea how to fix it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nick
>
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> I'm unable to replicate this on our RHEL7.4 test system. I installed 
> the latest package from the elrepo repository:
>
> $ rpm -q kmod-via-rhine
> kmod-via-rhine-1.5.1-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>
> and I see the appropriate symlinks created against installed 7.4 
> series kernels:
>
> $ rpm -qa kernel | sort
> kernel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-693.2.1.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
>
>
> $ find /lib/modules/ -name via-rhine.ko
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64/extra/via-rhine/via-rhine.ko
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/via-rhine/via-rhine.ko
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/via-rhine/via-rhine.ko
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.2.1.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/via-rhine/via-rhine.ko 
>
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/via-rhine/via-rhine.ko 
>
>
> I don't have the hardware to test, but I can load the module with 
> modprobe:
>
>
> Sep 30 06:53:10 [localhost] kernel: Request for unknown module key 
> 'The ELRepo Project (http://elrepo.org): ELRepo.org Secure Boot Key: 
> f365ad3481a7b20e3427b61b2a26635b83fe427b' err -11
> Sep 30 06:53:10 [localhost] kernel: via_rhine: loading out-of-tree 
> module taints kernel.
> Sep 30 06:53:10 [localhost] kernel: via_rhine: module verification 
> failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
> Sep 30 06:53:10 [localhost] kernel: via_rhine: v1.10-LK1.5.1 
> 2010-10-09 Written by Donald Becker
>
>
> $ lsmod | grep via
> via_rhine              32583  0
> mii                    13934  1 via_rhine
>
>
> So apart from not actually being able to test the module works, I 
> don't see anything amiss here.
>
> Perhaps you could try uninstalling and reinstalling the module and 
> checking to see if the symlinks in weak-updates are created.
>
> I can confirm that I see the same error when trying to rebuild against 
> the 7.4 series kernel. If you don't get any joy with the above, I can 
> certainly look to see if we can fix those build errors on el7.4.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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