Bug 12988
| Summary: | Giganet support needed in the kernel | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Becky Miller <becky_miller> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | alan, matt_domsch |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-08-02 19:31:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Becky Miller
2000-06-24 13:37:23 UTC
Alan, what's your take on this driver? There appear to be license problems with the connection manager software. It is not clear that we can ship it. Apparent driver issues: Summary posted to the internal Red Hat lists. I don't know if you want a copy to pass on to them Matt. We're interested in having the driver be part of the kernel, so it's easier to build and install clusters in our factories. The drivers should have a reasonable licence, but Red Hat may not be able to ship the connection manager software. Would you consider just including the drivers, and let others install the connection manager RPMs ourselves? Shipping the modules in a state that they cannot be used would make the distribution non-self-hosting in that sense, and I expect that we would not be willing to do that. Because the required clanmgr is non-open-source (and, in fact, binary-only software), we can't include it. I'm marking this as deferred in the hope that they will release some sort of sufficient management software under an Open Source license. If I'm mistaken and clanmgr is not actually required (we don't have this hardware available to work with), post that information here and re-open this bug report. |