CentOS - Sep 2009 - winbond w83793G driver

Hi! Have anyone any idea why w83793G driver is not in the upstream 
vendor kernel? do i have to compile my own kernel for this to work?

Thank you,
Adrian
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Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> Hi! Have anyone any idea why w83793G driver is not in the upstream 
> vendor kernel? do i have to compile my own kernel for this to work?
> 
> Thank you,
> Adrian
> 
Hi Adrian,

I guess the w83793 driver had not made the 2.6.18.4 kernel that RHEL5 is 
based off.

Anyway, luckily you don't need to build a whole kernel for one driver 
module - you can build the driver out of tree against the el5 kernel.

Even better, I've backported the module for you from the latest upstream 
kernel (2.6.30.5) as a kABI tracking kmod package and put it in the 
elrepo-testing repository here (kmod-w83793):

http://elrepo.org
http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/

As you have the hardware, I'd appreciate if you would test the driver 
and report back how it works, either here or on the elrepo mailing lists 
or bug tracker.

Thanks