[elrepo] mac802154_hwsim kmod request

[Alan Bartlett]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 23:44, Tamas Csirszka <tamas.csirszka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Different time zone here, hence my late response, but yes, that's quite embarrassing....
> You are absolutely right, I only installed the core package, haven't noticed that the modules are in a separate package in el8 (not like el7 where everything is in the kernel package)!
>
> After installing the modules rpm, everything is working as expected:
>
> [root at kernel8 ~]# uname -a
> Linux kernel8 5.8.6-2.el8.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 11:47:36 EDT 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at kernel8 ~]# modinfo mac802154_hwsim
> filename:       /lib/modules/5.8.6-2.el8.elrepo.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.ko.xz
> license:        GPL
> description:    Software simulator of IEEE 802.15.4 radio(s) for mac802154
> srcversion:     E4B7E19C5975B465FEDCF0B
> depends:        mac802154
> retpoline:      Y
> intree:         Y
> name:           mac802154_hwsim
> vermagic:       5.8.6-2.el8.elrepo.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
> [root at kernel8 ~]# modprobe mac802154_hwsim
> [root at kernel8 ~]# ip link
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 2: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 56:6f:e9:5e:00:12 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 3: wpan0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 123 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 300
>     link/ieee802.15.4 fe:d6:e2:60:9d:0e:38:e1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 4: wpan1: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 123 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 300
>     link/ieee802.15.4 8e:46:4c:63:e0:35:4e:0a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> [root at kernel8 ~]#
>
>
> Module lodes fine and wpan interfaces are up!
>
> So this means with your updates/addition to kernel config, this driver is now available on both el7 and el8 using the ml kernel!!
> Thank you very much.
>
> Cheers,
> Tamas

Hi Tamas,

You are not the only one who has tripped-up over the RHEL8
kernel-core, -modules and -modules-extra packages. So please don't
worry about it . . . we got there in the end.

I can now go and prepare the latest announcements for the updated
kernel-ml package sets, as linux-5.8.7 was released a short while ago.

Alan.