[CentOS] A Request to Add module to CentOS Linux (3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core)

Tue Sep 15 04:28:15 UTC 2020
Dedoep <stompnoe at gmail.com>

Hi Phil,

Not sure if you've had time to look at this? As mentioned middleware, like
docker-ce, is preventing us from moving to el8.

Thanks
Dan

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:33 PM Dedoep <stompnoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Phil, ok that's great thanks.
> I have a colleague working through vroc/fake raid issues we're having
> when using kernel-ml-5.8.6-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm by switching to linux
> soft raid. Also we dont have a supported docker-ce for el8  yet.
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 9:10 PM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/09/2020 07:59, Dedoep wrote:
>> > Hello John & Frank,
>> >
>> > We have tried both Centos8 and
>> > installing kernel-ml-5.8.6-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm but both options are
>> too
>> > "bleeding" edge for our other middleware that still require the Centos
>> > 7 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64. Hence the request.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>
>> I have tried backporting the module to el7 for you as requested at
>> elrepo, but it is not trivial and so far I've not been able to get the
>> code to compile cleanly. I'll see if I can have another look at it this
>> weekend, but I'm not overly hopeful given the age of the el7 kernel.
>>
>> As others have said, it's never going to appear in the CentOS kernel as
>> it's not present in upstream in RHEL7.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phil
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