[CentOS] vmxnet3 patch for CentOS6 kernel?

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 20:31:42 UTC 2011


On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

> You can now go ahead and do an RFE (under the 'CentOSPlus' category)
> if you so wish.

Submitted the request on behalf of the OP:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5054

A kernel update ( 2.6.32-131.12.1.el6 ) came out upstream today. This
patch will be added to the centosplus kernel.

Akemi



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