kmod

[Tim Gardner]

On 08/01/2012 01:23 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Following some urging by pitti I have merged kmod from Debian with
> our Ubuntu modifications to module-init-tools.  The only remaining
> modifcations seem to be our local blacklist configurations and our local
> path modifications.
> 
> I have put together a PPA with this updated kmod in it for testing.  I have
> been testing this on pretty much everything I have for the last 3 weeks.
> So far I have see no problems at all indeed things have been so smooth
> that I when I came back to confirm my results I found it installed on my
> travel laptop which I had not realised it installed.
> 
> I have tested this on i386, amd64 and armhf without issues.  I have also
> tested that the Ubuntu path support for updates and dkms are working.
> Plus, I have tested the blacklists are honoured when expected.
> 
> There are only two things that we should be aware of:
> 
> 1) it contains a transitional package for module-init-tools, so to roll
>    back we would need to epoch the original packages.  Though as i
>    understand it Debian has abandoned module-init-tools so we should be
>    getting no updates there which at least mitigates an epoch.
> 2) It has no "map" support.  I have as yet seen no ill effects from this.
>    Perceived wisdom is that these map files are no longer required.
>    From the testing I have done and from examination of those files
>    on disk I have not seen them even accessed in a standard install.
>    Given they have been disabled in Debian for a long time I suspect they
>    are not used at all.
> 
> Overall I think kmod is ready and we should follow Debians transition
> to it.  If you would like to test the packages they are in my 'black' PPA:
> 
>     https://launchpad.net/~apw/+archive/black
> 
> Baring any other objections I propose to prepare some packages and
> get them reviewed with a view to uploading them sooner rather than
> later.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -apw
> 

It appears to be working OK for me.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com