[elrepo] mac802154_hwsim kmod request

[Tamas Csirszka]

Hi Phil,

Good news.
Your kmod passed every test!
I will update the RFE with a few words shortly, that the kmod is working as
expected.

I much appreciate your work and help with this driver backport!!

THANK YOU,
tamas


On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:43 AM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> 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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