[elrepo] mac802154_hwsim kmod request

[Tamas Csirszka]

Hi Phil,

The other thing I just learned today, that the vendor I'm working with to
integrate this solution with DCOS/Mesosphere also engaged you guys with the
same question on a different site (I think it was centosfaq.org/). Sorry
about that and the double handling this caused. It wasn't intentional, more
of bad communication at our end/between us. Again sorry about this.

Re the testing, I was able to start the user supplied test app with the
kmod you provided. No issues I could see, but to be safe, let's wait for
the user to test it as well. I should receive his results by tomorrow.

Many thanks,
Tamas

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:12 PM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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