compilation error on centos 7 kernels

Yousong Zhou yszhou4tech at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 10:27:06 CEST 2018


On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 15:42, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:34:31AM +0800, Yousong Zhou wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 11:29, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Update to the latest available centos kernel in the latest available
> > > centos release, and then after install WireGuard. If you're facing
> > > problems then, email a compilation log.
> >
> > Well, better add a note in the installation page about the
> > update-to-date kernel version expectation.  The other thing is that
> > it's not always that feasible to switch kernel version in enterprise
> > managed environment
>
> But it is allowed to add random kernel modules to such an enviroment?
> You can't have it both ways, someone needs to work to fix such a
> horrible management policy that it sounds like you have.  Good luck!
>
> greg k-h

It's not okay to have random modules in any environment.  Sorry for
the noise if it's already widely known that wireguard kernel module
support for rhel/centos *expects* recent kernel revisions of these
distro.

                yousong


More information about the WireGuard mailing list