[elrepo] mac802154_hwsim kmod request

[Tamas Csirszka]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for creating my account. I was able to log in and created the
following two RFEs:

[channel: elrepo/el7 0001035]: [RFE] mac802154_hwsim kernel driver for el7
[channel: elrepo/el8 0001036]: [RFE] mac802154_hwsim kernel driver for el8

Much appreciate your help with this!

Cheers,
Tamas

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:56 PM Tamas Csirszka <tamas.csirszka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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