On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Stephan Wiesand
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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

And it you'd also like to get the 4.0 kernel source directly from
kernel.org, you can download it:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.0.tar.xz

>> PS:
>> according to http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/
>>
>> Is SL really based on an "obfuscated" kernel tarball?????

That article is not really accurate. While it is true that the
individual kernel patches are no longer available to the public, they
are available to RHN subscribers.

Akemi