Re: kernel-image-2.6.11-amd64 packages

[Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org>]

On 28/03/2005 Jacob Larsen wrote:
> >I have the same problem. I see this in the .config, but it is not shown
> >in menuconfig:
> >
> >| CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y

this is the same for kernel-source-2.6.10, i compared both menuconfigs.

the real problem is in the sources, drivers/scsi/qla2xxx is empty except
Kconfig and Makefile in kernel-source-2.6.11:

$ ll /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/
Kconfig  Makefile
$ ls /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/
Kconfig   ql2322.c   qla_def.h     qla_inline.h   qla_os.c
Makefile  ql6312.c   qla_devtbl.h  qla_iocb.c     qla_rscn.c
ql2100.c  ql6322.c   qla_gbl.h     qla_isr.c      qla_settings.h
ql2200.c  qla_dbg.c  qla_gs.c      qla_listops.h  qla_sup.c
ql2300.c  qla_dbg.h  qla_init.c    qla_mbx.c      qla_version.h

i didn't find any information about the qla2xxx driver removal in
the changelog, except one from 2.6.5-1 (long time ago):
  * Removed non-free firmware and disabled their drivers (see #239952):
    . QLA2XXX: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/*_fw.c

there is already a bugreport considering this issue:
#301603: Compile fails linking drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/build.o

i tried to comment out the entry in .config, but make-kpkg always
reverts the modifications.

finally i got this fixed by simply copying drivers/scsi/*.[ch] from
kernel-source-2.6.10.

bye
 jonas