ACK: [lunar:linux][lunar:linux-unstable][SRU][PATCH v3] UBUNTU: [Config] Mark CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO built-in

Roxana Nicolescu roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com
Wed Apr 19 08:57:41 UTC 2023


On 18/04/2023 15:26, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685291
>
> This enables initrd-less boot on generic kernel, enabling any Ubuntu
> installation to be lifted from any hardware and converted into a VM
> which will, even with corrupted initrd and missing modules, be able to
> boot by default. This is an extremly useful property to have on all
> ubuntu kernels. Separately, this also removes the need for linux-kvm
> kernel flavour, as all the changes it has are now incorporated into
> generic flavour & cloud-images.
>
> Other related bugs in related projects, that this change alone
> improves, but doesn't resolve in full alone:
> Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1931841
> Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2006488
>
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>
> Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> Acked-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi at canonical.com>
> ---
>   Changes:
>   - add subject headers of target kernels
>   - bump v2 to v3
>   - add only one buglink, downgrade others to References
>   - add two acks
>   - addjust note workding and add BugLink to it
>
>   debian.master/config/annotations | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/debian.master/config/annotations b/debian.master/config/annotations
> index bc466d7318..04d2917c6e 100644
> --- a/debian.master/config/annotations
> +++ b/debian.master/config/annotations
> @@ -528,8 +528,8 @@ CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_DUMP                            note<'LP: #1343109'>
>   CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_TRACE                           policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y'}>
>   CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_TRACE                           note<'LP: #1343109'>
>   
> -CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              policy<{'amd64': 'm', 'arm64': 'm', 'armhf': 'm', 'ppc64el': 'm', 'riscv64': 'm', 's390x': 'm'}>
> -CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              note<'tech preview of new feature'>
> +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y', 's390x': 'y'}>
> +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO                              note<'enable initrdless boot in VMs for ease of use, cloud-kernel parity and disaster recovery, LP: #1685291'>
>   
>   CONFIG_SECURITY_SAFESETID                       policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y', 's390x': 'y'}>
>   CONFIG_SECURITY_SAFESETID                       note<'LP: #1845391'>
Acked-by: Roxana Nicolescu <roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com>



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