On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 21:38 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 11:01 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > > > Package: ceph-dkms > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> > > > > > > > > > * Package name : ceph-dkms > > > * URL : http://ceph.newdream.net/ > > > * License : GPL2 > > > Programming Lang: C > > > Description : Ceph client kernel module [DKMS driver source] > > > > > > The Ceph client Linux kernel module allows hosts to natively mount a Ceph > > > file system. This package provides teh kernel modules source with has > > > been prepared for use with DKMS. > > > > Will this be the same code that has been accepted upstream? If so, I > > think we could add it to the linux-2.6 package instead of creating a > > separate package. > > It has. The DKMS package is the latest code, though, with backport > #ifdefs allowing it to build as far back as 2.6.27. If that's > inappropriate for debian, I can just keep those packages on the ceph > site only. Since the 'lenny' kernel is based on 2.6.26 and the 'squeeze' kernel on 2.6.32, I don't think it is worth providing a backport that covers versions in between these. Please do prepare a backport to 2.6.32 that we can add to the kernel package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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