On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM Farkas Levente <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi, > I wrote an issue about it: > https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1572 > and for me it was very clear it's a serious bug, but it seems I've to > explain it more details. > > The problem: > kmod-r8125 blacklist r8169 kmod. > > The bigger problem: > It was not doing it on el 9.6 but do it on 9.7! Which cause if someone > install kmod-r8125 on a system which has any other realtek network > device it's stop working and no longer be able to access to the system > remotely. > So it's a serious regression! > What's more can be solved only in place! > > Why it's so big problem? eg we've got a few thousands of server in a few > dozens of country...and wouldn't like to travel... > we keep the installed package list identical on all of our server, but > of course the hardware is not exactly the same. > > of course i can solve this simple rebuild the buggy rpm, but imho it's a > much larger problem. > > blacklist is for module for identical hardware eg nvidia and nouveau, > but in this case kmod-r8125 blacklist r8169 which is a much larger set > of hardware list. and the suggestion to install kmod-r8168 is not a > solution or have to install to all kmod-r*. > in case of i install ANY of the elrepo kmod the system still have to be > usable and working (what's more should have to be better). this is not > the case with kmod-r8125. > > So IMHO this move is very serious regression what's more these changes > have to revert in all similar places. > > regards. > > -- > Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
Hi Levente , Thanks for the note. I suppose there is no "one-size-fit-all" solution to the issue. The original reason why r8169 was blacklisted was that, with the kmod-r8125 in RHEL 10, it still used the r8169 driver. Of course, when you have 2 NICs, the situation is not as simple as disabling one driver or the other. We'd like to get a good and reasonable solution but in the mean time, we could revert the change if that works as a temporary fix. Akemi _______________________________________________ elrepo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo
