[Pkg-mol-devel] Re: Bug#391626: Please include mol into linux-modules-extra before etch

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:10:37AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:48:21AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:20:52AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:41:17AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > > tags 391626 +patch
> > > > 
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > As the mol maintainer I would really appreciate it if you could include
> > > > my patch before the etch release. The patch is already in the bug log
> > > > since about a month.
> > > > AFAICS a new upload of linux-modules-extra is needed anyway for 
> > > > linux-image-2.6.18-2-*. 
> > > > 
> > > > Please contact me if you need additional information or assistance. If
> > > > you are busy with other things I can also prepare an NMU.
> > > 
> > > Installing linux-support-2.6.18-2 and building the debian/control with it
> > > fails with :
> > 
> > Ok, i applied it with the gencontrol.py patch excluded and without mol in the
> > main defines.
> > 
> > Gaudenz/Bastian, can you look over the gencontrol.py failure and fix the patch ? 
> 
> It seems that Bastian already applied the patch in SVN. The current SVN
> builds without problems for me (and the resulting mol modules work). 
> 
> As there needs to be another upload for 2.6.18-2 anyway I hope that the
> mol modules will be included.

There will be an upload for -3, and mol should be included then.

> > But my test build failed in unionfs due to sioq.h missing, so there will be
> > need of some work for 2.6.18-2 anyway.
> 
> unionfs is currently deactivated in SVN. 

Indeed. We solved this quickly after i wrote that mail.

Friendly,

Sven Luther