Re: Speakup modules in squeeze
Ben Hutchings, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 03:52:20 +0100, a écrit : On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 03:12 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: [...] Those modules that may be needed at installation time will be added to the linux-2.6 package, and the speakup modules are clearly among those. I have added patches that put them under drivers/staging: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/patches/features/all/speakup/ Please review these So speakup-add.patch would always be a mere copy of speakup-source? Yes, or you could drop speakup-source. Speakup-kbuild.patch seems just right and will probably never have to change. and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. Mmm, couldn't linux-2.6 build-depend on speakup-source and just automatically import the source from there? No, that just moves the problem we have now to linux-2.6. Ok, so basically speakup could now only contain the tools and we'll push the kernel modules as needed to linux-2.6 itself. I think we should still keep speakup-source for people who are compiling their own vanilla kernel or such. Thanks, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Speakup modules in squeeze
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:54:47AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please review these and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. Currently staging drivers are only built for x86 because many of them are not really portable. I think this is not the case for speakup, so let me know if it should be built for more architectures. great, as code quality does not satisfy upstream yet, can we also add the taint flag on load for those. didn't check if it already happens for aufs and speakup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Speakup modules in squeeze
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:56 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:54:47AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please review these and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. Currently staging drivers are only built for x86 because many of them are not really portable. I think this is not the case for speakup, so let me know if it should be built for more architectures. great, as code quality does not satisfy upstream yet, can we also add the taint flag on load for those. didn't check if it already happens for aufs and speakup. This is already done. The taint flag is added when a module is loaded and its module info includes the keyword 'staging'. modpost adds this to all modules built under drivers/staging, and I included a patch to add this to aufs2. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your sig. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Speakup modules in squeeze
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:56 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:54:47AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please review these and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. Currently staging drivers are only built for x86 because many of them are not really portable. I think this is not the case for speakup, so let me know if it should be built for more architectures. great, as code quality does not satisfy upstream yet, can we also add the taint flag on load for those. didn't check if it already happens for aufs and speakup. This is already done. The taint flag is added when a module is loaded and its module info includes the keyword 'staging'. modpost adds this to all modules built under drivers/staging, and I included a patch to add this to aufs2. very nice indeed. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Speakup modules in squeeze
There is a big problem with the current linux-modules-extra-2.6 package, which is that the resulting binary packages are related to their source only by build-dependency, and this does not ensure that corresponding source and binary packages are kept released together. The FTP team had to spend a long time making sure this happened for lenny and is not prepared to do so again. Therefore, linux-modules-extra-2.6 will be removed and not included in squeeze. Those modules that may be needed at installation time will be added to the linux-2.6 package, and the speakup modules are clearly among those. I have added patches that put them under drivers/staging: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/patches/features/all/speakup/ Please review these and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. Currently staging drivers are only built for x86 because many of them are not really portable. I think this is not the case for speakup, so let me know if it should be built for more architectures. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Speakup modules in squeeze
Hello, Ben Hutchings, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 01:54:47 +0100, a écrit : There is a big problem with the current linux-modules-extra-2.6 package, which is that the resulting binary packages are related to their source only by build-dependency, and this does not ensure that corresponding source and binary packages are kept released together. Yes, that was a source of confusion for the users too. Those modules that may be needed at installation time will be added to the linux-2.6 package, and the speakup modules are clearly among those. I have added patches that put them under drivers/staging: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/patches/features/all/speakup/ Please review these So speakup-add.patch would always be a mere copy of speakup-source? Speakup-kbuild.patch seems just right and will probably never have to change. and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. Mmm, couldn't linux-2.6 build-depend on speakup-source and just automatically import the source from there? Currently staging drivers are only built for x86 because many of them are not really portable. I think this is not the case for speakup, so let me know if it should be built for more architectures. Speakup should build and work on basically all archs (it was tested on both 32 and 64bit platforms, and both little and big endians). Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Speakup modules in squeeze
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 03:12 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: [...] Those modules that may be needed at installation time will be added to the linux-2.6 package, and the speakup modules are clearly among those. I have added patches that put them under drivers/staging: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/patches/features/all/speakup/ Please review these So speakup-add.patch would always be a mere copy of speakup-source? Yes, or you could drop speakup-source. Speakup-kbuild.patch seems just right and will probably never have to change. and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. Mmm, couldn't linux-2.6 build-depend on speakup-source and just automatically import the source from there? No, that just moves the problem we have now to linux-2.6. Currently staging drivers are only built for x86 because many of them are not really portable. I think this is not the case for speakup, so let me know if it should be built for more architectures. Speakup should build and work on basically all archs (it was tested on both 32 and 64bit platforms, and both little and big endians). OK. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
