On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 18:13 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 10:45 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Irrespective, I think it is a fair candidate to be backported if > > 4.19 > > > missed that window. For User-Mode-Linux, The sources are the same > > that > > > the Debian Linux kernel team maintains. So either they could pick > > this > > > commit as a patch or else I'll try to look into it soon. > > [...] > > > > Can you please send this request to sta...@vger.kernel.org as well? > > Thanks for the suggestion Ben. > > The fix for this bug is now queued for the 4.19 stable tree. So soon, > this fix will show up in the Debian Linux kernel package too. That is > when we can trigger a rebuild of user-mode-linux package and then mark > this bug fixed. > > Debian Buster already has the dependency set correct to the 4.19 > kernel. Wishfully it would be much nicer if this whole process of the > build could be automated to trigger periodically, or trigger on every > upload of the linux-source package.
Does user-mode-linux need to be a separate source package at all? It might be difficult to integrate it with the linux source package, as we currently assume a strict separation between kernel and userland binary packages, but it is probably possible to do. Something to consider for the bullseye release cycle. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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