Bug#981522: varmon - ship with bullseye?

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 serious

Hi Christoph,

* Christoph Franzen <christoph@alte-pflasterei.de> [210820 12:09]:
> > Note that the dac960 has been removed from Linux 4.20-rc1. myrb/myrs
> > are given as replacements, but someone should check varmon works
> > with those drivers.
>  
> I WILL test the new driver, when I've enough spare time – it probably
> involves to set up a fresh installation rather than starting from the
> old "Lenny era" test drive I've stored with my spare card. The other
> machine has a more recent version, but I think is still too old to
> simply install a 4.x kernel and try loading that module.

> If you think it takes too long, please send me a reminder.

In the meantime I have checked the new driver sources, and found
that the new drivers do not register the special "misc" device
varmon relies on.

I would find it highly unlikely that varmon can work at all with any
4.x or 5.x kernel.

Therefore I'm marking this bug as serious, as I believe varmon is of
zero use in bookworm and forward.

Thanks,
Chris