[elrepo] mac802154_hwsim kmod request

[Phil Perry]

Hi Tamas,

No worries, and thanks for the feedback. I look forward to hearing the 
results of your further testing.

Thanks,

Phil

On 16/09/2020 14:11, Tamas Csirszka wrote:
> 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/ <http://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 
> <mailto: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
>     <http://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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