On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 17:53 +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > On May 22, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Quoting from the report of our 2009 meeting, > > <20091015123106.GA16736@kyllikki.org>: > >> out of tree modules > >> ------------------- > >> > >> After a somewhat involved discussion taking into account the FTP > >> masters extreme irritation about trying to match binaries to source by > >> hand for the lenny release it was resolved to remove > >> linux-modules-extra and -nonfree as they are an impossible to support > >> approach. > > > > The Built-Using header should cover FTP masters' concerns. However it > > is still the case that omnibus source packages are unsustainable as many > > OOT modules are not kept up to date with the kernel API. > > I haven't been keeping up with the inner workings of Debian GNU/Linux > the last couple of years, so please take this as-is. > > > Is it possible to setup an automatic build system for kernel and modules? Of course it is. [...] > To clarify: the kernel maintainer does not build and upload the package > to the archives, but only uploads the source package to this special > build system and it will do the rest... [...] Absolutely not acceptable. Out-of-tree modules must not hold up fixes to the kernel. It was bad enough when their build failures were blocking each other in linux-modules-extra-2.6. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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