Hi Phil, Good news. Your kmod passed every test! I will update the RFE with a few words shortly, that the kmod is working as expected.
I much appreciate your work and help with this driver backport!! THANK YOU, tamas On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:43 AM Phil Perry <p...@elrepo.org> wrote: > Hi Tamas, > > No worries, and thanks for the feedback. I look forward to hearing the > results of your further testing. > > Thanks, > > Phil > > On 16/09/2020 14:11, Tamas Csirszka wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > > > The other thing I just learned today, that the vendor I'm working with > > to integrate this solution with DCOS/Mesosphere also engaged you guys > > with the same question on a different site (I think it was > > centosfaq.org/ <http://centosfaq.org/>). Sorry about that and the > double > > handling this caused. It wasn't intentional, more of bad communication > > at our end/between us. Again sorry about this. > > > > Re the testing, I was able to start the user supplied test app with the > > kmod you provided. No issues I could see, but to be safe, let's wait for > > the user to test it as well. I should receive his results by tomorrow. > > > > Many thanks, > > Tamas > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:12 PM Phil Perry <p...@elrepo.org > > <mailto:p...@elrepo.org>> wrote: > > > > On 03/09/2020 09:07, Phil Perry wrote: > > > On 03/09/2020 06:39, Tamas Csirszka wrote: > > >> Hi All, > > >> > > >> I hope I'm not breaking etiket by dumping this request here out > of > > >> blue, but just joined this mailing list in the hope of getting > help > > >> from Elrepo to make the mac802154_hwsim kernel module available > on > > >> el7/8 if possible via backporting? > > >> > > >> I have a group of ppl who require this module for their > simulation > > >> work, they were able to get it on the latest Ubuntu, but to > > scale up > > >> their simulation, we need to accommodate their needs now and > > migrate > > >> them away from their Ubuntu laptop. On the env where we want to > put > > >> these guys we do not have/support Ubuntu, only running Centos > > >> (preferably 7 at this stage, but 8 might be possible in near > > future as > > >> well, as soon as the docker related issues are sorted). > > >> > > >> I had a quick look, and this module was introduced in the 4.19 ml > > >> kernel (/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c), but hasn't > been > > >> backported in el7/8 so far. > > >> > > >> Any chance you guys could look at it and create a kmod for it? > > Or any > > >> other suggestion you have on how to install this on Centos 7/8 > > without > > >> the need of compiling a main line kernel manually which could > > >> potentially break other things? > > >> > > >> Thanks a lot, > > >> Tamas > > >> > > > > > > Hi Tamas, > > > > > > Welcome to the list. > > > > > > We can certainly look at this. Red Hat have backported updated > WiFi > > > stacks to both el7 and el8 from 5.x series kernels so it should be > > > possible to backport this driver from the matching upstream > > kernel release. > > > > > > I would appreciate if you could register on elrepo.org/bugs > > <http://elrepo.org/bugs>, and open > > > RFEs against both el7 and el8 for this request. We can then use > > those > > > RFEs to track progress. We will hopefully have something for you > > to test > > > by the weekend. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Phil > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've backported mac802154_hwsim for you for el7. I've updated your > > request here: > > > > https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1035 > > > > Please can you test the package works as expected, then if all is OK > we > > can move it into the main repository from testing. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Phil > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > elrepo mailing list > > elrepo@lists.elrepo.org <mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org> > > http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > elrepo mailing list > > elrepo@lists.elrepo.org > > http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo > > > > _______________________________________________ > elrepo mailing list > elrepo@lists.elrepo.org > http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo >
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