[2016-03-15 10:06:22 +1000] Allan McRae:
On 14/03/16 09:07, Allan McRae wrote:
On 13/03/16 00:52, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
Please note that as an ideal target, I would have all our kernel modules available via dkms _and_ via prebuilt modules for each kernel flavor we provide. I read on the dev IRC that few modules could only be shipped from sources. Not sure of that btw.
For example, we could, for simplicity says that we provide pre-built modules only for the main kernel and dkms for all others kernels.
What I would like is a team consensus/decision on how we handle kernel oot modules not complains directed on virtualbox only.
I vote for binary modules for all kernels in [core] and dkms versions. Kernels outside of [core] can have binary modules provided at the maintainer's choice.
We are going to need more opinions here to build a consensus...
To me the issue is people pushing new kernels to the repos but not being able to provide the same level of support that we have for mainline. Offloading out-of-tree module rebuilds to end users instead of doing it ourselves is clearly not the right solution. So I say: remove each non-mainline kernel of which the maintainer is unwilling to support the corresponding out-of-tree modules. After all, as Allan points out, rebuilding them is a simple script job... Cheers. -- Gaetan