On 10/08/2014 11:41 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 10/08/2014 07:43 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:47:12PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 10/07/2014 12:05 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
KB and I were looking at repositories to import into git.centos.org recently, and we found the e1000e package -- a rebuild of the Intel e1000 driver for the x4c kernel.
Does anyone know if this externally-build module is still necesssary for Linux 3.10? Or for Linux 3.14, which we're planning on moving to at some point in the near future?
It is required for some e1000e devices .. I started building it because several new Dell machines did not work with the driver in 3.4.x or 3.10.x kernels.
Not sure why, but there were issues and this solved them, so I would say it is required.
There is also in kernel mods to get newer bn* drivers as well that is patched into the 3.10.x kernel as patches.
Yeah it sucks a bit that the drivers aren't really up-to-date in the latest upstream kernels, or the LTS kernels :(
Basing the x4c kernel on the el7 kernel would give all those driver updates and maintenance "for free", but the maintenance cost would be elsewhere, obviously..
I guess the x4c 3.14 kernel just needs to deal with certain amount of driver updates to keep the most common hardware working..
are we willing to / able to - patch this into the kernel ?
If I was smart enough to patch that driver into the kernel it would already be there :) (I did patch in new drivers for bn*)