Re: linux-kbuild

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:52:57PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> Hi.  I have a problem I am sure is not atypical.  My new laptop doesn't
> work too well with the lenny 2.6.26 kernel.  This in itself isn't the
> problem, nor is it surprising.  I don't actually recall ever getting a
> new laptop that was fully supported by Debian stable.
> 
> In the past solving it has been a combination of waiting until a kernel
> that did support it was packaged by Debian, then recompiling compiling
> it myself.  As I use several kernel modules I usually end up having to
> either fix the Debian versions so they compile or package the newer
> upstream versions.  Tedious, but no big issue - at least no bigger than
> I would face if I didn't use Debian.
> 
> And so it went with 2.6.28 in experimental.  Except when it came to
> compiling the modules.  I ran into linux-kbuild.  A brief look revealed
> a version for 2.6.28 it wasn't available in debian/pool.  A longer look
> at the 2.6.26 version revealed it didn't come from any upstream package,
> but was somehow hand crafted from the kernel source.  At that point I
> would have been stuffed, except somehow you guys let some version of
> linux-kbuild 2.6.28 escape to the web and I was able to find it with
> google.  Comparing the source to 2.6.26, I still am no wiser about how
> you put it together.
> 
> And so to the my real request: please make the same mistake with 2.6.29.
> The linux-2.6 source package is bloody near useless without the matching
> linux-kbuild, so if you aren't going to release it at the same time as
> you release your first version of 2.6.29, please please let it "escape",
> preferably with big hints planted around the web so I can find it.

It is in unstable.

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dann frazier