<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Alan,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the info. I quickly tested this with the below results.<br></div><div>I installed the kernel you suggested on el7 first:</div><div><br></div><div> [root@kernel7 ~]# uname -a<br>
Linux kernel7 5.8.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 2 12:22:35 EDT 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
[root@kernel7 ~]#</div><div><br></div><div>But the module doesn't seem to be available:</div><div><br></div><div>
[root@kernel7 ~]# modinfo mac802154_hwsim<br>
modinfo: ERROR: Module mac802154_hwsim not found.<br>
[root@kernel7 ~]#</div><div><br></div><div>Checked the modules dir as well and can't see it there:</div><div><br></div><div>
[root@kernel7 ieee802154]# pwd<br>
/usr/lib/modules/5.8.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ieee802154<br>
[root@kernel7 ieee802154]# ls -l<br>
total 296<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 33424 Sep 3 02:43 adf7242.ko<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 49688 Sep 3 02:43 at86rf230.ko<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 35792 Sep 3 02:43 atusb.ko<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 45256 Sep 3 02:43 ca8210.ko<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 29528 Sep 3 02:43 cc2520.ko<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 13784 Sep 3 02:43 fakelb.ko<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 43288 Sep 3 02:43 mcr20a.ko<br>
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 32560 Sep 3 02:43 mrf24j40.ko<br>
[root@kernel7 ieee802154]#</div><div><br></div><div>The
Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network support (
ieee802154
) is there with many available modules, but the hardware simulator module(
mac802154_hwsim.ko
) which my user needs for IoT network modelling is unfortunately missing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On el8 the modinfo similarly cannot find the module and the ieee802154 directory is empty:</div><div><br></div><div> [root@kernel8 ieee802154]# pwd<br> /usr/lib/modules/5.8.6-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ieee802154<br> [root@kernel8 ieee802154]# ls -l<br> total 0<br> [root@kernel8 ieee802154]#</div><div><br></div><div>
<div></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tamas</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:53 PM Alan Bartlett <<a href="mailto:ajb@elrepo.org">ajb@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 Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 11:05, Tamas Csirszka <<a href="mailto:tamas.csirszka@gmail.com" target="_blank">tamas.csirszka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi Phil,<br>
><br>
> Thank you for creating my account. I was able to log in and created the following two RFEs:<br>
><br>
> [channel: elrepo/el7 0001035]: [RFE] mac802154_hwsim kernel driver for el7<br>
><br>
> [channel: elrepo/el8 0001036]: [RFE] mac802154_hwsim kernel driver for el8<br>
><br>
><br>
> Much appreciate your help with this!<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Tamas<br>
<br>
Hi Tamas,<br>
<br>
While the creation of the kmod packages are being investigated, you<br>
might like to test the kernel-ml package set [1] that we provide for<br>
use with both RHEL7 and RHEL8.<br>
<br>
The current version [2] (which I shall shortly be announcing on this<br>
m/l) is built from the linux-5.8.6 sources and has the MAC802154<br>
configuration option set to build it as a module.<br>
<br>
Knowing the result of your test(s) with kernel-ml may assist with the<br>
backport required to create the relevant kmod package.<br>
<br>
Alan.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml</a><br>
[2] kernel-ml-5.8.6-1.el{7|8}.elrepo<br>
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