[elrepo] mac802154_hwsim kmod request

[Phil Perry]

On 03/09/2020 09:07, Phil Perry 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
> 

Hi,

I've backported mac802154_hwsim for you for el7. I've updated your 
request here:

https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1035

Please can you test the package works as expected, then if all is OK we 
can move it into the main repository from testing.

Thanks,

Phil