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Re: Out-of-tree kernel module udeb



On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:36:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 13:25 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 
> > > At the moment only spl is available in the archive, using dkms, and
> > > for zfs it's similar in the way of packaging though not uploaded yet.
> > > What we have (code ready to go) is a mechanism that detects/gets
> > > definition of a current KVERS and generate a source package with
> > > dependencies and binary packages with names corresponding to it.
> > > 
> > > What do you guys think?
> > 
> > My personal stance on kernel related things would be “upstream first”.
> > If it ain't going to be merged into mainline, or at least accepted as a
> > patchset (like e.g. aufs3 or rt in wheezy) for src:linux, I'm not sure
> > we want to support that.
> > 
> > Cc-ing debian-kernel@ to see what they think.
> 
> I strongly oppose adding OOT modules this way as a supposed workaround
> for licence incompatibility.
> 

this has been indeed our general conensus. we reject OOT modules or
patchsets that have zero or near zero probability of getting merged upstream.

-- 
maks

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