<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-05-05 3:47 GMT+08:00 Phil Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org" target="_blank">phil@elrepo.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 04/05/17 11:47, Phil Perry wrote:<br>
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On 04/05/17 04:57, Randy Li wrote:<br>
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從我的 iPad 傳送<br>
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Phil Perry <<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org" target="_blank">phil@elrepo.org</a>> 於 2017年5月3日 下午11:56 寫道：<br>
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On 03/05/17 14:13, Randy Li wrote:<br>
Hello all<br>
I recently bought a LSI FC949ES (LSI 7204EP-LC) fibre channel adapter.<br>
And I installed it in my HP DL 380e g8 server. I found there is a<br>
module<br>
for that adapter, but there is no such package for centos 7. Could<br>
someone tell me why it is not supported(not stable ?).<br>
If there is nothing special, I would try to port it into centos 7.<br>
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Looks like mptfc.ko was deprecated by Red Hat in RHEL6:<br>
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<a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/docu<wbr>mentation/en-US/Red_Hat_</a><br>
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Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migrat<wbr>ion_Planning_Guide/sect-<br>
<a href="http://packages-deprecated-drivers.ht">packages-deprecated-drivers.ht</a><wbr>ml<br>
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and as such is not supported in RHEL7. I'm guessing the reason is it's<br>
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old and considered end of life, and RH doesn't wish to keep backporting<br>
fixes for the next 10+ years.<br>
I see.<br>
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There is no reason not to backport and maintain it yourself in RHEL7,<br>
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simply RH have chosen not to.<br>
Well this adapter is very cheap, and suitable for the home usage fibre<br>
network.<br>
Also I have had that adapter and linux kernel doesn't drop the supporting<br>
of it, right ?<br>
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Correct. The only potential issue to be aware of is future<br>
compatibility. We may be able to backport the driver for the RHEL kernel<br>
now but RH may change things in their kernel in the future that may make<br>
it difficult or impossible for us to support it, so as long as you are<br>
aware of that and not using it for anything critical.<br>
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The one problem is that whether EL repo would or would not accept it.<br>
Is there any guide about adding a new kernel modules packages for RHEL?<br>
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Let me look at backporting it for you. It seems to depend on the SCSI<br>
sub-system so I'll just need to figure out which is the correct kernel<br>
to backport from.<br>
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I'll post back here when I have a driver package for you to test.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Phil<br>
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I've built a driver package for you to test, it's in the testing repository and files are currently syncing to the mirrors.<br>
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kmod-mptfc-3.04.20-1.el7.elrep<wbr>o.x86_64.rpm<br>
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Once files have synced to the mirrors, to install:<br>
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yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-mptfc<br>
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and you'll probably need to 'modprobe mptfc' or reboot the system.<br></blockquote><div>Thank you, that package works for me. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If you could let me know if it works as expected and then we can promote the package to the main repository.</blockquote><div>But actually I found I don't have a good way to use this device, since it is quite old, the userspace supporting has been dropped.<br>I am just sure the module works fine for me, that module loaded and show me the correct information, I didn't meet any problem in 7 hours. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Regards,<br>
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Phil<br>
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