Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.18-9
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:53:03PM +0100, Max Vozeler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:43:57AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:08:08PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> > > This update bears 3 ABI breaking changes. While the vserver patch might
> > > be adaptable, the PAE migration of i386 Xen is not. But we need this
> > > change as a workaround for #399113, otherwise the i386 Xen kernels will
> > > be broken in the release, and require an immediate update.
> > > And since we are already planning an ABI bump, we can add the missing
> > > changeset of 2.6.18.5, too.
> >
> > The first two ABI changes are specific to extra kernel flavors that
> > aren't relevant to the installer and have few (if any?) extra modules
> > built for them.
>
> Actually, quite a few modules packages are being built for the
> vserver and xen flavours :
>
> main:
> spca5xx (linux-modules-extra-2.6)
> redhat-cluster (linux-modules-extra-2.6)
> squashfs (linux-modules-extra-2.6)
> loop-aes (loop-aes)
>
> contrib:
> ipw2100 (linux-modules-contrib-2.6)
> ipw2200 (linux-modules-contrib-2.6)
> ipw3945 (linux-modules-contrib-2.6)
>
> non-free:
> kqemu (linux-modules-nonfree-2.6)
>
> Unless I missed some, I think this concerns four source packages.
> I'm not sure if it would be possible to binNMU / force rebuild of
> those, but since linux-modules-* are maintained by the kernel team
> and loop-aes by myself, I think we could react quickly and rebuild
> them via normal sourceful uploads as well.
Why is loop-aes not part of the official module packages ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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