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