On 8/15/24 16:33, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 04:27:01PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
There's 2 issues that I'm aware of with our current generic image.
First, the genericcloud image kernel has the SATA AHCI driver stripped-out,
so then the config drive doesn't work anymore. I reported this here:
https://bugs.debian.org/1078702
Bastian, do you think, with your kernel team hat, that you can take care of
this one?
This is by design. Use the generic image if you need more drivers.
As I earlier, this needs change. So I opened this bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/1078702
to which Bastian replied, immediately closing the bug:
> This driver was never part of the cloud kernel flavour.
> Maybe this can change, but not now.
1/ I never wrote it was part of the cloud kernel, just that it was
*removed* compared to the non-cloud kernel.
2/ I don't understand why the bug is closed without any explanation. The
"Maybe this can change, but not now." is clearly not enough to my taste.
I do not wish this bug to be simply closed and forget.
The same way, the OCFS2 module isn't in the cloud kernel. Maybe I should
open another bug for that one, so that the ocfs2 is also included in the
generic-cloud image? FYI, the OCFS2 filesystem is useful when doing
block device multi-attach (one block device attached to more than one
VM). So it's really a cloud use case (OpenStack Cinder knows how to do
multi-attach).
What does the team suggest? Is there any ways to escalate this? Should I
escalate somewhere, or just wait?
Of course, we've switched away from the generic-cloud image for our
deployment, but that's kind of frustrating. It's 420M instead of 326M,
just for this tiny AHCI driver...
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
