From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] add dkms support Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60964 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753491Ab0G2GCJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:02:09 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeMBw-0004dy-VA for ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:02:04 +0200 Received: from 80-219-106-215.dclient.hispeed.ch ([80.219.106.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:02:04 +0200 Received: from thomas by 80-219-106-215.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:02:04 +0200 Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:30:02 -0700 schrieb Sage Weil: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:02:19 -0700 schrieb Sage Weil: >> >> > BTW, the Debian kernel guys would rather include the ceph module in >> > the main kernel package than include a dkms package directly in >> > Debian. That means maintaining a backport branch specifically for >> > 2.6.32 (the squeeze kernel). >> > >> > (We should still have this dkms package available on the ceph site, >> > of course!) >> >> would be cool if they included it in squeeze kernel. but i'm bit >> surprised. squeeze freeze is expected late august (http:// >> lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/06/msg00002.html) and >> debian folks normaly don't bump versions and only do bugfixing after a >> release. >> >> so I would expect that squeeze has to include a stable ceph.ko and >> stable server side too. And as the freeze seems to be approaching fast >> this would be a tough schedule. > > I'm not sure what their criteria are there... the ceph-dkms ITP is > 589562, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589562 I could not find any policy manual about a debian stable series. if they do accept larger changes after a release it would be nice if they include it. if they do not accept more than bugfixing I could imaging that the provided module may be sometime (think of squeeze-release+1year) incompatible/worthless with ceph server side? pro ceph-dkms: if squeeze is released newer versions of ceph-dkms can be easyly provided by backports.org as I see, server side is also on its way, cool! (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506040) - Thomas