On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:47:12PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 10/07/2014 12:05 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > > KB and I were looking at repositories to import into git.centos.org > > recently, and we found the e1000e package -- a rebuild of the Intel > > e1000 driver for the x4c kernel. > > > > Does anyone know if this externally-build module is still necesssary > > for Linux 3.10? Or for Linux 3.14, which we're planning on moving to > > at some point in the near future? > > It is required for some e1000e devices .. I started building it because > several new Dell machines did not work with the driver in 3.4.x or > 3.10.x kernels. > > Not sure why, but there were issues and this solved them, so I would say > it is required. > > There is also in kernel mods to get newer bn* drivers as well that is > patched into the 3.10.x kernel as patches. > Yeah it sucks a bit that the drivers aren't really up-to-date in the latest upstream kernels, or the LTS kernels :( Basing the x4c kernel on the el7 kernel would give all those driver updates and maintenance "for free", but the maintenance cost would be elsewhere, obviously.. I guess the x4c 3.14 kernel just needs to deal with certain amount of driver updates to keep the most common hardware working.. -- Pasi > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
