So am reading this correctly that our OOT driver(s) work on the vanilla 4.5 kernel but not on the 4.5 kernel from the elrepo? Is this correct? If so what the hell did they do to the kernel to break this for the CentOS 4.5 kernel release?
Cheers, John > -----Original Message----- > From: Fujinaka, Todd > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:16 AM > To: Ronciak, John <[email protected]>; Skidmore, Donald C > <[email protected]>; Leonardo Amaral - Listas > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 4.3.13 x Linux 4.5.0 = Compilation Faillure > > No, this is an elrepo kernel. It's not even a stable kernel. > > I think most of the command line options are available through ethtool so I > would suggest sticking with the in-kernel version. > > Todd Fujinaka > Software Application Engineer > Networking Division (ND) > Intel Corporation > [email protected] > (503) 712-4565 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronciak, John > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:04 AM > To: Skidmore, Donald C <[email protected]>; Leonardo Amaral - > Listas <[email protected]>; Fujinaka, Todd > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 4.3.13 x Linux 4.5.0 = Compilation Faillure > > No this is a CentOS kernel so I don't know why a kcompat change is needed > but I guess it is. > > Cheers, > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Skidmore, Donald C [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:45 AM > > To: Leonardo Amaral - Listas <[email protected]>; Fujinaka, > > Todd <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 4.3.13 x Linux 4.5.0 = Compilation > > Faillure > > > > So this is an Ubuntu kernel not a kernel.org one, right? It doesn't > > mean it shouldn't work just I don't believe our validation actively > > checks new Ubuntu kernels. When issues do come up we will however > > write kcompat for the next release. Likewise the Source Forge driver > > can only be tested on kernels that are available at the time we put > > out said driver. 4.3.13 came out in January pre 4.5.0 existence so it > > wouldn't be surprising if some kernel change caused us a problem. > > Normally this isn't an issue, like Todd mentioned, as the upstream > > driver is often more up to date than what is on source forge anyway so > > there isn't much to be gained using the out of tree driver on such kernels. > > > > However, from the output of your build failure looks like it was > > unhappy with your autoconf, did you run 'make oldconfig' or see any errors > when you did? > > > > Thanks, > > -Don Skidmore <[email protected]> > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Leonardo Amaral - Listas [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:27 AM > > > To: Fujinaka, Todd <[email protected]> > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 4.3.13 x Linux 4.5.0 = Compilation > > > Faillure > > > > > > 2016-03-16 12:54 GMT-03:00 Fujinaka, Todd <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > Is there a reason you're compiling the out-of-tree driver for a > > > > kernel that new? The in-kernel driver should work for most cases > > > > and is more recent as well. > > > > > > > > > > And a last information about versions and options: > > > > > > # (echo -e "modinfo -k 4.5.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 ixgbe\n" ; modinfo > > > -k > > > 4.5.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 ixgbe ; echo -e "\nmodinfo ixgbe\n" ; > > > modinfo > > > ixgbe) | wgetpaste -s dpaste > > > Your paste can be seen here: http://dpaste.com/24GE6ZR > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > Transform Data into Opportunity. > > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data > > Analytics Acceleration Library. > > Click to learn more. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 > > _______________________________________________ > > E1000-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel > > To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit > > http://communities.intel.com/community/wired ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
