[elrepo] mac802154_hwsim kmod request

[Tamas Csirszka]

Thank you very much Phil!

I have requested an account on elrepo.org/bugs and will create the RFEs as
soon as I get the access details.

Thanks again,
Tamas

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:08 PM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 03/09/2020 06:39, Tamas Csirszka wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I hope I'm not breaking etiket by dumping this request here out of blue,
> > but just joined this mailing list in the hope of getting help from
> > Elrepo to make the mac802154_hwsim kernel module available on el7/8 if
> > possible via backporting?
> >
> > I have a group of ppl who require this module for their simulation work,
> > they were able to get it on the latest Ubuntu, but to scale up their
> > simulation, we need to accommodate their needs now and migrate them away
> > from their Ubuntu laptop. On the env where we want to put these guys we
> > do not have/support Ubuntu, only running Centos (preferably 7 at this
> > stage, but 8 might be possible in near future as well, as soon as the
> > docker related issues are sorted).
> >
> > I had a quick look, and this module was introduced in the 4.19 ml kernel
> > (/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c), but hasn't been backported
> > in el7/8 so far.
> >
> > Any chance you guys could look at it and create a kmod for it? Or any
> > other suggestion you have on how to install this on Centos 7/8 without
> > the need of compiling a main line kernel manually which could
> > potentially break other things?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Tamas
> >
>
> Hi Tamas,
>
> Welcome to the list.
>
> We can certainly look at this. Red Hat have backported updated WiFi
> stacks to both el7 and el8 from 5.x series kernels so it should be
> possible to backport this driver from the matching upstream kernel release.
>
> I would appreciate if you could register on elrepo.org/bugs, and open
> RFEs against both el7 and el8 for this request. We can then use those
> RFEs to track progress. We will hopefully have something for you to test
> by the weekend.
>
> Regards,
> Phil
>
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