Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: retitle -1 Please add bcache module udeb
Cyril Brulebois, on Sat 04 Feb 2017 05:47:36 +0100, wrote: > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> (2015-01-20): > > Andreas Kloeckner, le Wed 07 Jan 2015 11:44:14 -0600, a écrit : > > > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes: > > > > Andreas Kloeckner, le Wed 07 Jan 2015 09:59:58 -0600, a écrit : > > > >> It's true that bcache is in the full kernel image package, but > > > >> bcache.ko > > > >> is *not* available in D-I (without extracting the kernel package, > > > >> manually finding the .ko, insmod, ...). I would like to suggest that at > > > >> least bcache.ko be included in the installer image, so that this > > > >> annoying charade can be avoided. > > > > > > > > Will it be useful at all since bcache-tools is not available? > > > > > > Yes, since all you need to get a preexisting bcache volume up and > > > running is: > > > > > > modprobe bcache > > > echo /dev/sdb > /sys/fs/bcache/register > > > echo /dev/sdc > /sys/fs/bcache/register > > > > Ok, it looks nice enough indeed. > > > > The module is not so small (354K here), so I guess this should be > > shipped in a separate udeb to avoid filling initrds. This udeb would > > then be available among others in the expert-mode d-i component list. > > Perhaps it could be auto-loaded at partman stage, but at least making it > > available would be way more convenient than fetching it by hand. > > > > Ben, Bastian, do you think it could be added for Jessie? > > It would probably make sense to turn this into a wishlist bug report > against src:linux so that we get an extra udeb to be used in expert mode > indeed. I'm not sure anyone is going to do more integration work on the > d-i side, so we could probably just reassign this bug report to > src:linux? I agree, so doing it. Samuel
