Dear Debian Developers, This is a follow-up to https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/01/msg00461.html (Message-ID: <20180122140840.GA4580@odessa>).
Some good people in the thread above mentioned that maintaing a forked kernel merely for two one-line patches is too much. I disagreed initially, but then, found that in recent kernels, one of the patches is not needed. For the other (related to rfkill), I managed to make a custom DKMS package with the patch included here: https://github.com/kumanna/rfkill-dkms Luckily, this seems to work. So, my customization of an official Debian ISO consists of: - Grabbing a stable DVD ISO. - Replacing the installed kernel with a more recent one from backports (should be unnecessary for testing) and ensuring that it gets chosen via preseed. - Adding custom scripts for enabling sound and bluetooth (preseeding) grabbed from https://github.com/sundarnagarajan/rdp-thinbook-linux - Adding the non-free firmware that is needed for wireless and sound. - Adding my custom patched rfkill DKMS package and ensuring that linux-headers is also installed, so that I can use the preseed/late_command to build the DKMS module. My current (hack) is documented here: https://gitlab.com/kumanna/debian-installer-rdp I intend moving this to salsa.debian.org and improving this customization. With thanks to the previous responders, I wanted to know if there are other things I should keep in mind. Let me know if I have missed any details. Thanks. Kumar -- We apologize for the inconvenience, but we'd still like yout to test out this kernel. -- Linus Torvalds, announcing another kernel patch
