On 19/02/11 17:17, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 17:11 +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
In fact one can see this first hand as Red Hat backported the coretemp
module into RHEL-5.5 (kernel-2.6.18-194.el5), but *only* for non-xen
variants! I wasn't aware the differences between xen and non-xen
kernel variants were so wide reaching.
Well, maybe someone with an active support contract could talk to their
manager about this... who knows, maybe it's not so complicated to
backport after all, it's just that they need a little kick.
Yes, it's not difficult as they've done it (albeit with older upstream
code) for the regular kernel and our earlier v1.1-6 kmod package runs
fine on xen too. However, I think it's largely academic now as RHEL5 is
nearing 4 years old and hence soon entering it's second phase of support
during which they are unlikely to add new functionality. The last time I
filed a request for a refresh of an existing driver (in 5.1) it took 2
years until 5.5 to get released:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446061
so I'm not holding my breath on getting any new drivers into RHEL5 now -
I think we've missed that boat :-)
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