[CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

Tue Mar 12 11:21:01 UTC 2019
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:16:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote:
> >      >
> >      > I updated my PR: [3]https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen-kernel/pull/18
> > 
> >      Hi Karl, I've build and tested your PR, but without the GCC7 patch, and
> >      when I've tested it on el6, none of the guests had network access.
> >      I had to revert the bridge changes to have them working
> >      (CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER=m and CONFIG_BRIDGE=m).
> > 
> >      Why did you want the BRIDGE built-in instead of a module?
> > 
> >      Maybe you have something to setup the bridge (probably filter) properly,
> >      or maybe something is different in the xen package between el6 and el7.
> >      Any idea?
> > 
> >      I still have to investigate the Xen pkg, and have a closer look at those
> >      tests I'm running.
> > 
> >    Hum strange. I switched from module to built-in because I always had a
> >    deprecated warning about bridge when booting CentOS 6 (and I guess
> >    everyone needs bridge?). I don't remember what was the exact warning
> >    because it's been a long time since I switched it. I don't mind to put it
> >    back as a module, both works for me but the warning is gone when built-in.
> >
> 
> Yeah better to keep things as modules, like they have been.
> 
> btw upstream Linux 4.9 LTS kernel is now at 4.9.162 :)
> 
>

I suggest we:

1) Rebase to linux 4.9.162.
2) Drop the "set bridge to built-in instead of module" changes. Let's keep those settings like they were earlier.
3) Drop the use of gcc7 for now.


How does that sound? 


Thanks,

-- Pasi