[elrepo] zd1211rw driver for EL7.5 confusion

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:55 AM, Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi gents,
> I had the zd1211rw driver compiled for 7.4, but it did not do the weak
> updates bit to the 7.5 kernel. Recompiling without any source changes it
> gave no errors and doing a reinstall has it working with the 7.5 kernel.
> This has me confused. Does it mean that other drivers need to be recompiled
> against 7.5 even though you have not released a specific 7.5 version (e.g
> aic7xxx)? Or is it just a question of "suck it and see"?
> Regards,
> Nick

Both zd1211rw and aic7xxx are on our list of "packages that need
rebuilding for the 7.5 kernel". According to the memo I have,
kmod-zd1211rw has a note, "Needs backporting from 4.14". So, I'm a bit
surprised to hear that it worked for you just by rebuilding the same
code. We will try to release an updated version soon.

Regarding kmod-aic7xxx, it does not build under 7.5. We will look into
this as time permits.

Akemi