Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.18-9

[Max Vozeler <max@nusquama.org>]

Hi all,

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:43:57AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:08:08PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> > This update bears 3 ABI breaking changes. While the vserver patch might
> > be adaptable, the PAE migration of i386 Xen is not. But we need this
> > change as a workaround for #399113, otherwise the i386 Xen kernels will 
> > be broken in the release, and require an immediate update.
> > And since we are already planning an ABI bump, we can add the missing
> > changeset of 2.6.18.5, too.
> 
> The first two ABI changes are specific to extra kernel flavors that
> aren't relevant to the installer and have few (if any?) extra modules
> built for them. 

Actually, quite a few modules packages are being built for the
vserver and xen flavours :

main:
  spca5xx         (linux-modules-extra-2.6)
  redhat-cluster  (linux-modules-extra-2.6)
  squashfs        (linux-modules-extra-2.6)
  loop-aes        (loop-aes)

contrib:
  ipw2100         (linux-modules-contrib-2.6)
  ipw2200         (linux-modules-contrib-2.6)
  ipw3945         (linux-modules-contrib-2.6)

non-free:
  kqemu           (linux-modules-nonfree-2.6)

Unless I missed some, I think this concerns four source packages.
I'm not sure if it would be possible to binNMU / force rebuild of
those, but since linux-modules-* are maintained by the kernel team
and loop-aes by myself, I think we could react quickly and rebuild
them via normal sourceful uploads as well.

cheers,
Max