[CentOS] vmxnet3 patch for CentOS6 kernel?

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 21:30:10 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio at methics.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could CentOS kernel keepers apply following patch on current kernel?
>    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/95785/

(snip)

> Could this be applied on stock CentOS kernel so that I could return on un-customized kernel use?

Because CentOS is a bug-for-bug clone of the upstream vendor's, it is
not possible to modify or apply patches to the distro kernel. But this
could be done in the centosplus kernel.

> PS: bugs.centos.org is apparently unable to send email out, otherwise I would have written this as a bug report...

Yes, it is broken. I filed a request to repair it at:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5032

Akemi



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