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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