[elrepo] Via-rhine driver on 7.4

[Nick Howitt]

Hi Phil,

Thanks very much for that. The user who had the issue is way more 
capable than me so I'll see if he can test it and give feedback to 
enable you to promote it.

Regards,

Nick

On 30/09/2017 15:30, Phil Perry wrote:
>
> On 30/09/17 15:19, Nick Howitt wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Thanks for the feedback Nick.
>
> For reference, the build issues on el7.4 were easy enough to fix, so I 
> have fixed those and rebuilt the package against the RHEL 7.4 kernel 
> and released it to our testing repository here:
>
> kmod-via-rhine-1.5.1-3.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> I note the newly built package is only compatible with 7.4 series 
> kernels and is not backward compatible with earlier kernels.
>
> For reference, the fix is:
>
> -    dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
> +    netif_trans_update(dev); /* prevent tx timeout */
>
> This was a treewide patch applied upstream in 2016, and presumably 
> backported to the RHEL7.4 kernel, so potentially affects a number of 
> elrepo drivers using trans_start updates.
>
> If your user has any issues with the driver, I would apply the above 
> fix and rebuild against your 7.4 kernel.
>
> Phil
>
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