[PULL] [B] dkms: build out-of-tree modules from dkms source

[Andrea Righi]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 09:31:24AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764792
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1807378
> 
> This is a backport of the dkms packaging from disco to bionic that
> allows to build out-of-tree modules (nvidia drivers and zfs/spl for now)
> from DKMS source as part of the regular kernel build process.
> 
> In this way we don't have to maintain a complete copy of zfs/spl source
> code in the kernel (source code is downloaded and compiled as part of
> the dkms build process).

About zfs/spl, it's worth mentioning that I re-ran all the zfs autotests
(smoke tests, fstests, zfs+xfs tests) to make sure zfs is still working
as expected and all tests completed successfully (no FAILED error
message reported).

Custom kernel ppa used to run these tests:
 https://launchpad.net/~arighi/+archive/ubuntu/linux-dkms

-Andrea