On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: >> Hi kernel team, >> >> I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and >> compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting >> with compat-wireless 3.5.4. The reason I am using module-assistant >> (instead of dkms) is so that embedded users of debian can compile & >> distribute kernel module packages without needing a compiler on the >> embedded device. > > This is not a reason to avoid DKMS, as you can use 'dkms mkdeb' to build > a package for installation elsewhere.
didn't know about mkdeb. will start looking at dkms (at least for our internal use). thanks. >> I am starting with 3.5.4 because I have already >> packaged it for my company and have tested it internally with the >> squeeze kernel. > > Since wheezy is now frozen, this cannot be added to wheezy and therefore > cannot be added to squeeze-backports either. So this will not be a very > effective way to help other squeeze users. Could it be added to wheezy-backports? > The official kernel package (linux-2.6/linux source package) does get > stable updates to extend hardware support, but not as many as I would > like. I would really like to see compat-drivers integrated into the > linux source package so users don't need to look for extra package or a > special installer. But we will need to ensure that there is adequate > regression testing whenever we update compat-drivers in stable. > > Would you be interesting in working on this? It would help many more > users than a separate package. Are you asking for work on adding it to linux-source, or doing some testing? I'm not sure I could provide adequate testing on any version other than the one's my company is running. Thanks, Jayen -- Marathon Targets Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia http://www.marathon-targets.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAChaDqQk+Umccp_510qHx0=b4efdr2zg70scvoy3aa_av2y...@mail.gmail.com
