Re: [PATCH 1/2] add dkms support

[Thomas Mueller <thomas@chaschperli.ch>]

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