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