ACK/Cmnt: [SRU][JAMMY][PATCH v5 0/2] build backport-iwlwifi-dkms as linux-modules-iwlwifi-ABI

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 14:00, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 25.05.22 13:23, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1969434
> >
> > This is outstanding diffs to packaging still to apply to Jammy ga
> > (v5.15) kernel to enable building standalone dkms modules.
> >
> > These have now been tested extensively in linux-unstable & oem-*
> > kernels in kinetic and jammy.
> >
> > Changes since v4:
> >   - drop dkms-versions updates, as those are already
> >     applied to kernel-versions repo
> >
> >   - add fixups to non-default build types (cross/mainline/autopkgtest)
> >
> > You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) (2):
> >    UBUNTU: [Packaging] support standalone dkms module builds
> >    UBUNTU: [Packaging] drop do_<mod> arch specific configs
> >
> >   debian.master/rules.d/amd64.mk       |  2 --
> >   debian.master/rules.d/arm64.mk       |  1 -
> >   debian.master/rules.d/ppc64el.mk     |  1 -
> >   debian.master/rules.d/s390x.mk       |  2 --
> >   debian/control.d/flavour-module.stub | 19 +++++++++++
> >   debian/rules                         | 29 +++++++++--------
> >   debian/rules.d/0-common-vars.mk      | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk      | 36 ++++++++++++++++-----
> >   debian/scripts/control-create        | 27 ++++++++++++++++
> >   9 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> >   create mode 100644 debian/control.d/flavour-module.stub
> >
>
> Generally it looks sensible. the devil hides in the details and those are hard
> to read through quickly. But I assume something going wrong here will show
> itself when preparing the kernel and then someone will come to complain.
> Meanwhile...
>
> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>

Contingency plan is a straightforward revert of these patches. All
other changes in kernel-versions so far have been kept backwards and
forwards compatible with current and these new dkms packaging changes.

--
okurrr,

Dimitri