ACK: [SRU R][PATCH 0/2] Add v4l2loopback to default install

Edoardo Canepa edoardo.canepa at canonical.com
Wed Sep 23 09:58:47 UTC 2026


Acked-by: Edoardo Canepa <edoardo.canepa at canonical.com>

On 9/23/26 10:38, Stefan Bader wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2168012
>
> -- Impact --
>
> Before 26.04/Resolute the v4l2loopback module was build from DKMS and included
> in linux-modules. When switching to linux-main-modules (LMM) it was omitted
> from the additional dependencies for linux-modules and for that reason is no
> longer part of the default kernel installation (-generic).
>
> -- Fix --
>
> Add packaging changes to depend on linux-main-modules-v4l2loopback-* from
> linux-modules. More or less followed what was done for zfs. The only
> difference is that I have not added it to the meta package for the core
> fallback image as it is not crucial for that.
>
> -- Testcase --
>
> Before: installing linux-generic would not install the module
> After: installing linux-generic should have it
>
> -- Regression Potential --
>
> Since there is no code change things to go wrong are packaging.
>
> Stefan Bader (1):
>    UBUNTU: [Packaging] Add dependencies for v4l2loopback
>
>   debian/control.d/generic | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
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