I backported the fintek watchdog driver for the F71808E watchdog timer, from the Fedora 2.6.38 kernel to 2.6.32 for CentOS6. It also supports It has been suggested that I might be inclined to contribute this driver to the CentOS group, and now that it has been running in the field on some 100 systems for over two months, I feel it is stable enough to do that. How would I go about contributing this driver? It is in the form of an RPM for CentOS6.3 at the moment. The kmod was built with mock.
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 22:14 -0500, Mike Schmidt wrote:
I backported the fintek watchdog driver for the F71808E watchdog timer, from the Fedora 2.6.38 kernel to 2.6.32 for CentOS6. It also supports It has been suggested that I might be inclined to contribute this driver to the CentOS group, and now that it has been running in the field on some 100 systems for over two months, I feel it is stable enough to do that. How would I go about contributing this driver? It is in the form of an RPM for CentOS6.3 at the moment. The kmod was built with mock.
Your best bet would be to try to get it included in ElRepo, which is designed to carry exactly this kind of packages.
Otherwise, there are CentOS Plus and CentOS Extras repositories, but the admission criteria are not very clear, so whilst your package is definitively useful, I'm not sure whether it belongs there or not.
On 02/01/2013 07:33 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
Otherwise, there are CentOS Plus and CentOS Extras repositories, but the admission criteria are not very clear, so whilst your package is definitively useful, I'm not sure whether it belongs there or not.
Admission criteria is pretty clear : anything that does not overlap with the base distro goes into Extras, others into Plus - any code backed by a willing contributor is welcome and will be considered.
Ideally, we want to retain focus towards core components rather than leaf nodes. eg. a newer version of wget might not be that high a priority, but a kmod of this nature would be welcome.
Questions ? fire away.
Regards,
- KB
On 02/01/2013 03:14 AM, Mike Schmidt wrote:
I backported the fintek watchdog driver for the F71808E watchdog timer, from the Fedora 2.6.38 kernel to 2.6.32 for CentOS6. It also supports It has been suggested that I might be inclined to contribute this driver to the CentOS group, and now that it has been running in the field on some 100 systems for over two months, I feel it is stable enough to do that.
Excellent!
How would I go about contributing this driver? It is in the form of an RPM for CentOS6.3 at the moment. The kmod was built with mock.
If you go ahead and file an issue report at bugs.centos.org - we can get that included as a kmod into CentOS-Extras, with a zero barrier to install for every user - and/or if you are happy to in-band code, we can include this into the CentOS-Plus kernel
Regards
- KB
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