<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you very much Phil!</div><div><br></div><div>I have requested an account on <a href="http://elrepo.org/bugs">elrepo.org/bugs</a> and will create the RFEs as soon as I get the access details.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Tamas<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:08 PM Phil Perry <<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org">phil@elrepo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 03/09/2020 06:39, Tamas Csirszka wrote:<br>
> Hi All,<br>
> <br>
> I hope I'm not breaking etiket by dumping this request here out of blue, <br>
> but just joined this mailing list in the hope of getting help from <br>
> Elrepo to make the mac802154_hwsim kernel module available on el7/8 if <br>
> possible via backporting?<br>
> <br>
> I have a group of ppl who require this module for their simulation work, <br>
> they were able to get it on the latest Ubuntu, but to scale up their <br>
> simulation, we need to accommodate their needs now and migrate them away <br>
> from their Ubuntu laptop. On the env where we want to put these guys we <br>
> do not have/support Ubuntu, only running Centos (preferably 7 at this <br>
> stage, but 8 might be possible in near future as well, as soon as the <br>
> docker related issues are sorted).<br>
> <br>
> I had a quick look, and this module was introduced in the 4.19 ml kernel <br>
> (/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c), but hasn't been backported <br>
> in el7/8 so far.<br>
> <br>
> Any chance you guys could look at it and create a kmod for it? Or any <br>
> other suggestion you have on how to install this on Centos 7/8 without <br>
> the need of compiling a main line kernel manually which could <br>
> potentially break other things?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks a lot,<br>
> Tamas<br>
> <br>
<br>
Hi Tamas,<br>
<br>
Welcome to the list.<br>
<br>
We can certainly look at this. Red Hat have backported updated WiFi <br>
stacks to both el7 and el8 from 5.x series kernels so it should be <br>
possible to backport this driver from the matching upstream kernel release.<br>
<br>
I would appreciate if you could register on <a href="http://elrepo.org/bugs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">elrepo.org/bugs</a>, and open <br>
RFEs against both el7 and el8 for this request. We can then use those <br>
RFEs to track progress. We will hopefully have something for you to test <br>
by the weekend.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Phil<br>
<br>
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