[CentOS-devel] C7 i686 kernel driver request

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
> On 10/04/2015 03:37 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
>>> Is it beyond reason to request certain older drivers be enabled in the
>>> i686 kernel for CentOS 7 to help support the older hardware that you
>>> might find in 32 bit machines?  I have an old gateway laptop that I'm
>>> trying it out on and it needs the b43 driver enabled.
>>
>> Is there any reason you can't grab the SRPM and, for the short term,
>> build it yourself using "mock" and the new testable i386 repo? Or, for
>> the short term, grab a USB/wifi device with an old, standard chipset
>> and just use that until this gets worked out? I've done both in the
>> past for older operating systems.
>
> That's exactly what I'm doing now, but I'm putting the request in as
> well as I'd like to not have to rebuild the kernel myself each time a
> new one comes out, I'd much rather the driver is enabled in the stock
> CentOS kernel if possible.

Cool! I'm glad it's working! That means it's actually tested, at least
in one environment! That's sometimes the hardest part of getting a
change made, is actually testing that it works! That means you've got
the modified SRPM and could send a patch to go with the request?