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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Levente,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As noted in the bug tracker, we have pushed out a new kmod-r8125 that removes the blacklist file.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1572" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1572</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Note: That the kmod-r8168 will still retain the blacklist-r8169.conf.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Tuan</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 01:28:28 PM EST, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM Farkas Levente <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:lfarkas@lfarkas.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lfarkas@lfarkas.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> hi,<br clear="none">> I wrote an issue about it:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1572" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1572</a><br clear="none">> and for me it was very clear it's a serious bug, but it seems I've to<br clear="none">> explain it more details.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The problem:<br clear="none">> kmod-r8125 blacklist r8169 kmod.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The bigger problem:<br clear="none">> It was not doing it on el 9.6 but do it on 9.7! Which cause if someone<br clear="none">> install kmod-r8125 on a system which has any other realtek network<br clear="none">> device it's stop working and no longer be able to access to the system<br clear="none">> remotely.<br clear="none">> So it's a serious regression!<br clear="none">> What's more can be solved only in place!<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Why it's so big problem? eg we've got a few thousands of server in a few<br clear="none">> dozens of country...and wouldn't like to travel...<br clear="none">> we keep the installed package list identical on all of our server, but<br clear="none">> of course the hardware is not exactly the same.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> of course i can solve this simple rebuild the buggy rpm, but imho it's a<br clear="none">> much larger problem.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> blacklist is for module for identical hardware eg nvidia and nouveau,<br clear="none">> but in this case kmod-r8125 blacklist r8169 which is a much larger set<br clear="none">> of hardware list. and the suggestion to install kmod-r8168 is not a<br clear="none">> solution or have to install to all kmod-r*.<br clear="none">> in case of i install ANY of the elrepo kmod the system still have to be<br clear="none">> usable and working (what's more should have to be better). this is not<br clear="none">> the case with kmod-r8125.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> So IMHO this move is very serious regression what's more these changes<br clear="none">> have to revert in all similar places.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> regards.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> --<br clear="none">> Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hi Levente ,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thanks for the note. I suppose there is no "one-size-fit-all" solution<br clear="none">to the issue. The original reason why r8169 was blacklisted was that,<br clear="none">with the kmod-r8125 in RHEL 10, it still used the r8169 driver. Of<br clear="none">course, when you have 2 NICs, the situation is not as simple as<br clear="none">disabling one driver or the other.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We'd like to get a good and reasonable solution but in the mean time,<br clear="none">we could revert the change if that works as a temporary fix.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Akemi<div class="ydp7883cf9ayqt6783165505" id="ydp7883cf9ayqtfd17529"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">elrepo mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">elrepo@lists.elrepo.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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