Re: drbd in linux-2.6

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On 2010-03-30, dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> wrote:
> drbd maintainers,
>
> As you no doubt know, linux-modules-extra has been dropped for
> squeeze. The recommended[1] direction for building out-of-tree module
> is to either:
>
>  a) get merged into linux-2.6
>  b) use the dkms framework
>
> DRBD is now merged upstream, so it seems like a good candidate for
> option a. Do the drbd8 maintainers know of any issue with that
> (userspace tool compatability, etc)? Are you ok with dropping the
> drbd8-source binary package if we include this in linux-2.6?
>
> I've backported the latest upstream DRBD bits into our kernel targeted
> at squeeze:
>   http://people.debian.org/~dannf/drbd/
>
> I'd appreciate it if an existing drbd user could test it.
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00003.html

I've done the same 3-4 weeks ago and likewise send them the patch for
testing, unfortunately they we unable to test it yet.

Cheers,
        Moritz