Hi Dirk,

> On 24 Apr 2015, at 15:43, Dirk Hoffmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 23, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 
>> SL's kernels are simply rebuilt from the upstream (RHEL) kernel
>> source. So, it was Red Hat to decide to update the igxbe driver to
>> 4.0.1. I suspect it was backported from the latest stable kernel from
>> kernel.org (4.0).
> 
> Thanks for that very quick answer!
> 
> Any idea how I can look at the kernel sources (and hence the driver code in question)?

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/SRPMS/vendor/kernel-3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.src.rpm

> This:
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/7Server/en/os/README
> sends me to a page, where
> rpms/kernel
> rpms/kernel.git
> rpms//kernel
> rpms//kernel.git
> rpms/kernel/
> rpms/kernel.git/
> seem to be closest to what I need. But they end up showing the same contents and just a bogus multiplicity or misconfiguration of that server.
> 
> However, the branches there ("c7" for CentoOS7) do not contain any substantial kernel sources, just some configuration stuff.
> 
> I am lost. Any help will be appreciated.
> 									Dirk
> 
> 
> PS: I am likely to get this wrong, but:
> " - The kernel tarball inside the srpm is created from a git tree that is only accessible to Red Hat engineers."
> according to http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/
> 
> Is SL really based on an "obfuscated" kernel tarball?????

If you want to call it that, yes.

Cheers,
	Stephan