[CentOS] winbond w83793G driver

Adrian Sevcenco Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch
Tue Sep 8 07:23:45 UTC 2009


Ned Slider wrote:
> Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>> Hi! Have anyone any idea why w83793G driver is not in the upstream 
>> vendor kernel? do i have to compile my own kernel for this to work?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Adrian
>>
> 
> Hi Adrian,
Hi,

> I guess the w83793 driver had not made the 2.6.18.4 kernel that RHEL5 is 
> based off.
> 
> Anyway, luckily you don't need to build a whole kernel for one driver 
> module - you can build the driver out of tree against the el5 kernel.
> 
> Even better, I've backported the module for you from the latest upstream 
> kernel (2.6.30.5) as a kABI tracking kmod package and put it in the 
> elrepo-testing repository here (kmod-w83793):
Thanks a lot!!!!

> http://elrepo.org
> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/
> 
> As you have the hardware, I'd appreciate if you would test the driver 
> and report back how it works, either here or on the elrepo mailing lists 
> or bug tracker.
Sure! I will let you know asap :)

Thanks!
Adrian
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