[CentOS] vmxnet3 patch for CentOS6 kernel?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio at methics.fi> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could CentOS kernel keepers apply following patch on current kernel?
>>    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/95785/
>
> (snip)
>
>> Could this be applied on stock CentOS kernel so that I could return on un-customized kernel use?
>
> Because CentOS is a bug-for-bug clone of the upstream vendor's, it is
> not possible to modify or apply patches to the distro kernel. But this
> could be done in the centosplus kernel.
>
>> PS: bugs.centos.org is apparently unable to send email out, otherwise I would have written this as a bug report...
>
> Yes, it is broken. I filed a request to repair it at:
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5032

The problem has been fixed according to the above bug tracker report.
You can now go ahead and do an RFE (under the 'CentOSPlus' category)
if you so wish.

Akemi