On 10/08/2014 07:43 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > 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.. > are we willing to / able to - patch this into the kernel ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
