On su, 27 joulu 2020, Gordon Messmer wrote: >On 12/27/20 4:31 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>On 12/27/20 5:00 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote: >>>I can see two major ways of enabling 3rd-party drivers: >>>  - using elrepo's excellent work on kmods to build a CI for CentOS >>>   Stream kernel updates and perhaps block updates based on CI results' >>>   consensus (not necessary blocked until it 100% green) >>Phil Perry from ElRepo project wrote extensively both on [CentOS] and >>[CentOS-devel] lists why that aproach is not viable. > > >I might be misreading one party or another, but I believe that what is >being proposed is better integration of ELRepo's kmod packages and >CentOS Stream, so that kernel updates aren't published until the >modules build. And if it is, then I'm not sure why that approach >would not be viable. > >Neal Gompa wrote: "The correct fix here is to start blocking RHEL >kernel updates >against third-party Free Software kernel module packages to ensure >compatibility isn't broken and the kernel ABI stops breaking on every >kernel version series. The reason it keeps breaking is because there's >no current mechanism in which these are tested together to validate >them for release." > >That seems like an ideal solution. You are getting it right, Gordon, thank you for connecting the threads. -- / Alexander Bokovoy Sr. Principal Software Engineer Security / Identity Management Engineering Red Hat Limited, Finland