Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/21/2016 01:07 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/21/2016 12:59 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> As you should know, our general policy is to wait for patches to be >> applied by the subsystem maintainer. Let us know when they are. > > Ok, I wasn't aware of that. I will let you know

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/21/2016 12:59 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > As you should know, our general policy is to wait for patches to be > applied by the subsystem maintainer. Let us know when they are. Ok, I wasn't aware of that. I will let you know once that has happened! Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 11:42 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Control: retitle -1 linux: Please add autoloading support for vio > > On 04/14/2016 11:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On 04/14/2016 10:56 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > > Hold on a second, I

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

Control: retitle -1 linux: Please add autoloading support for vio On 04/14/2016 11:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/14/2016 10:56 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hold on a second, I had a copy-and-paste error, the patch needs >> a slight update since __ATTR_RO(modalias) is

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Processing control commands: > retitle -1 linux: Please add autoloading support for vio Bug #815977 [src:linux] vio devices on SPARC do not have modaliases Changed Bug title to 'linux: Please add autoloading support for vio' from 'vio devices on SPARC do not have modaliases'. -- 815977:

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/14/2016 10:56 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hold on a second, I had a copy-and-paste error, the patch needs > a slight update since __ATTR_RO(modalias) is misssing in > vio_dev_attrs. Attaching a cleaned up patch. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/13/2016 05:27 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Ok, tested it and it didn't work unfortunately. The modules are > not loaded automatically and it seems the reason is that the > modaliases are not generated: Hold on a second, I had a copy-and-paste error, the patch needs a slight update

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Processing control commands: > tags -1 patch Bug #815977 [src:linux] vio devices on SPARC do not have modaliases Added tag(s) patch. -- 815977: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815977 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

Control: tags -1 patch Hi Ben! On 04/13/2016 05:40 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Try deleting the 'if (!cp)' block. That wasn't enough. I invested some more time and now have a patch that does the trick. Module aliases are created correctly and module autoloading is working as expected. This has

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Processing control commands: > reopen -1 Bug #815977 {Done: Ben Hutchings } [src:linux] kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i Bug reopened Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #815977 to the same values previously set > retitle

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

Control: reopen -1 Control: retitle -1 vio devices on SPARC do not have modaliases On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 17:27 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/13/2016 02:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On 04/11/2016 01:32 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > The attached patch

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/13/2016 02:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/11/2016 01:32 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> The attached patch might fix that, though the correct fix would >> presumably be to merge the two implementations. > > Thanks a lot for the explanation and the patch. I will test the > patch

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/11/2016 01:32 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The attached patch might fix that, though the correct fix would > presumably be to merge the two implementations. Thanks a lot for the explanation and the patch. I will test the patch and then we can maybe decide if we include it as a work around. I

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 00:02 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/10/2016 10:17 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Like everything else in the installer initramfs, they are installed > > from a udeb.  See build/pkg-lists/*/sparc64.cfg > Yeah, I remember that now. Indeed, scsi-core-modules

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/10/2016 10:17 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Like everything else in the installer initramfs, they are installed > from a udeb. See build/pkg-lists/*/sparc64.cfg Yeah, I remember that now. Indeed, scsi-core-modules was missing. However, nic-modules was already there. I rebuilt d-i now making

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 21:03 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/10/2016 08:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > initramfs-tools has nothing to do with the installer initramfs. > Hmm, ok. Then I'll need to keep digging in debian-installer. So far, > I haven't found the obvious place yet

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On 04/10/2016 08:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > initramfs-tools has nothing to do with the installer initramfs. Hmm, ok. Then I'll need to keep digging in debian-installer. So far, I haven't found the obvious place yet which is responsible for adding modules to the initrd in the debian-installer

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 20:39 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:54:05AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System > wrote: > > > > $ git grep -E 'sunvdc|sunvnet' debian/installer/ > > debian/installer/sparc64/modules/sparc64/nic-modules:sunvnet ? > >

Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

Hi Ben! On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:54:05AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > $ git grep -E 'sunvdc|sunvnet' debian/installer/ > debian/installer/sparc64/modules/sparc64/nic-modules:sunvnet ? > debian/installer/sparc64/modules/sparc64/scsi-core-modules:sunvdc ? > $ dpkg-deb -c

Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i

Source: linux Version: 4.4.2-3 Severity: normal User: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 Hi! Several sparc64 users recently reported that the sunvnet and sunvdc modules have been missing while installing with debian-installer and they had to load these manually [1]. As it turns