On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Denice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
> ​The kmod-forcedeth package was rebuilt against the EL7.4 kernel (​
>> 3.10.0-693.el7​)​ and has been released to the elrepo-testing repository.
>> It
>> will appear soon here:
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el7/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-forcede
>> th-0.64-3.el7.e
>> lrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Or other mirror sites. Can you run a test? Please note that this is not
>> backward compatible with earlier (<= 7.3) kernels.
>>
>
> Okay, I have installed it and it works.
>
> # uname -r
> 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
>
> # rpm -q kmod-forcedeth
> kmod-forcedeth-0.64-3.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>
> # ethtool -i net0
> driver: forcedeth
> version: 0.64
> firmware-version: expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:00:0a.0
> supports-statistics: yes
> supports-test: yes
> supports-eeprom-access: no
> supports-register-dump: yes
> supports-priv-flags: no
>
> Note that one must be a bit careful, since you first must install the
> new kernel, and only then can you install this kmod-forcedeth driver
> because
> of dependencies on the kabi framework.
>
> The new kmod driver 'updates' the old one, all your old forcedeth modules
> disappear (because it is incompatible with older kernels?).
>
> This means you cannot boot back to older kernels and still have a
> functional network.
>
> # pwd
> /lib/modules
>
> # ls
> 3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.x86_64/  3.10.0-514.26.1.el7.x86_64/
> 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/
>
> # find . -name forcedeth\* -ls
> 26878446    0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           25 Aug  9 10:51
> ./3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra/forcedeth
> 26878447  108 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       109360 Aug  9 09:24
> ./3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra/forcedeth/forcedeth.ko
>

​Thank you for testing as well as providing the notes. I will move the
package from testing to the main repo.

Akemi​