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Re: Best practices for kernel modules



On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hello all,
>   
[...]
> 
> There are two bugs against the OpenAFS package, one requesting prebuilt
> modules (Bug#224527) and one requesting that modules be automatically
> rebuilt when the kernel is upgraded (Bug#168852).  I'm not sure how to
> deal with these issues.  I'd love to get some feedback on what the current
> best practices are for packaging kernel modules.
> 
[...]

The kernel team has discussed having a package that builds -source packages
for modules when a new kernel is uploaded; I think that's the best solution,
although the infrastructure to do that still has to be written.

I'm not sure if anyone's working on it atm.

 



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