Bug#61065: Adam Di Carlo: Re: Bug#61065: Need /dev/md0 for boot/install RAID support in root.bin
Mike Bilow <mikebw@colossus.bilow.com> writes:
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:53:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > Ok -- you're asking for kernel patching. This is not for us to
> > > decide. This is for the kernel-source maintainer (Herbert Xu) to
> > > decide. I would assume it's too late in the freeze process to change
> > > this in potato. I've CC'd him.
> >
> > I won't do this for 2.2.14 or 2.2.15 since those who need this can easily
> > patch their own kernels to do it. If someone wishes to make a kernel-patch
> > package for it, that would be OK though.
>
> That's a good idea! What is involved in making a kernel patch? Should it
> have any dependencies other than upon kernel-source? In this case, it
> would make sense to have a dependency upon raidtools2. A kernel patch
> package would also be the logical place to collect some documentation.
Look at the pkgs named by 'apt-cache search kernel-patch' and download
some of the sources and see how they work.
Probably end-user documentation shouldn't go in the kernel-patch pkgs
since they aren't generally installed by users (the resulting
kernel-image-* pkg, made from the patched sources, is where the doc
and the dependancy should be).
Hey, wait a minute. We already have: kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid,
maintained by Pekka Aleksi Knuutila <pa@debian.org> (cc'd). Why is
that 2.2.10 and not 2.2.14 ? Are there images? Are they adequate?
I just committed the change for the md drivers. It seems to me that
an enterprising person could hack out another i386 (etc?) flavor for
RAID from the boot-floppies CVS sources and elsewhere, but not
committing these to potato yet. Once they have that demonstrably
working, then maybe we could see if we could get that added to potato.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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