<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Phil,<br><br></div><div>Good news.<br></div><div>Your kmod passed every test!<br></div><div>I will update the RFE with a few words shortly, that the kmod is working as expected.</div><div><br></div><div>I much appreciate your work and help with this driver backport!!<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>THANK YOU,</div><div>tamas<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:43 AM 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">Hi Tamas,<br>
<br>
No worries, and thanks for the feedback. I look forward to hearing the <br>
results of your further testing.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
<br>
On 16/09/2020 14:11, Tamas Csirszka wrote:<br>
> Hi Phil,<br>
> <br>
> The other thing I just learned today, that the vendor I'm working with <br>
> to integrate this solution with DCOS/Mesosphere also engaged you guys <br>
> with the same question on a different site (I think it was <br>
> <a href="http://centosfaq.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">centosfaq.org/</a> <<a href="http://centosfaq.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://centosfaq.org/</a>>). Sorry about that and the double <br>
> handling this caused. It wasn't intentional, more of bad communication <br>
> at our end/between us. Again sorry about this.<br>
> <br>
> Re the testing, I was able to start the user supplied test app with the <br>
> kmod you provided. No issues I could see, but to be safe, let's wait for <br>
> the user to test it as well. I should receive his results by tomorrow.<br>
> <br>
> Many thanks,<br>
> Tamas<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:12 PM Phil Perry <<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org" target="_blank">phil@elrepo.org</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org" target="_blank">phil@elrepo.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> On 03/09/2020 09:07, Phil Perry wrote:<br>
> > 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<br>
> >> blue, but just joined this mailing list in the hope of getting help<br>
> >> from Elrepo to make the mac802154_hwsim kernel module available on<br>
> >> el7/8 if possible via backporting?<br>
> >><br>
> >> I have a group of ppl who require this module for their simulation<br>
> >> work, they were able to get it on the latest Ubuntu, but to<br>
> scale up<br>
> >> their simulation, we need to accommodate their needs now and<br>
> migrate<br>
> >> them away from their Ubuntu laptop. On the env where we want to put<br>
> >> these guys we do not have/support Ubuntu, only running Centos<br>
> >> (preferably 7 at this stage, but 8 might be possible in near<br>
> future as<br>
> >> well, as soon as the docker related issues are sorted).<br>
> >><br>
> >> I had a quick look, and this module was introduced in the 4.19 ml<br>
> >> kernel (/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c), but hasn't been<br>
> >> backported in el7/8 so far.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Any chance you guys could look at it and create a kmod for it?<br>
> Or any<br>
> >> other suggestion you have on how to install this on Centos 7/8<br>
> 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<br>
> 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><br>
> <<a href="http://elrepo.org/bugs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://elrepo.org/bugs</a>>, and open<br>
> > RFEs against both el7 and el8 for this request. We can then use<br>
> those<br>
> > RFEs to track progress. We will hopefully have something for you<br>
> to test<br>
> > by the weekend.<br>
> ><br>
> > Regards,<br>
> > Phil<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> I've backported mac802154_hwsim for you for el7. I've updated your<br>
> request here:<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1035" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1035</a><br>
> <br>
> Please can you test the package works as expected, then if all is OK we<br>
> can move it into the main repository from testing.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Phil<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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