Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

[Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>]

On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:24:10 Michael Tokarev wrote:
> And note that whole 5.0.6-allow-for-kernel-packet-size-change.patch
> is NOT NEEDED, it should be reverted upstream.  *SIGH*, we spent
> a ton of time and emails discussing this matter, please find
> the recent LWN feature article about it (a good summary), or
> LKML threads.  The patches are now added to all stable trees.
> 
> The two patches -- linux kernel version check and this one --
> should be reverted upstream and not included in debian package.

Thanks for this, I trust you that we don't need 
    5.0.6-allow-for-kernel-packet-size-change.patch

However it is not too easy to just drop this patch because it will break the 
chain of upstream patches. Possibly we need to apply all upstream patches and 
then use our new patch to revert some of their changes... Or maybe consider 
ignoring upstream patches... What do you think would be the best?

Dropping kernel version check is a bit challenging as well due to multiple 
references to this code. If you're sure it will be a cause for any troubles 
perhaps we could modify the code of 'linux_version_code' function instead of 
dropping it completely...

Unfortunately this is a bit beyond my competency so I hope you have some 
ideas.

Thank you.

Regards,
Dmitry.