On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Package: openafs > Version: 1.6.10-3 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu vivid ubuntu-patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > In Ubuntu we are about to switch up to a v3.18 based kernel. It seems > there are a trio of incompatibilities exposed there for the DKMS module. > They all seem pretty safely fixed, and we have just uploaded that to > Ubuntu for testing. > > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following: > > * Upstream v3.18 porting (LP: #1397275): > - follow removal of key_type match op > - follow removal of ctl_table typedef > - d_invalidate now returns void > > > Thanks for considering these patches for Debian.
Hi Andy, I'm happy to bring support for openafs on the 3.18 kernel to Debian; it hadn't been a priority yet since Debian is running a somewhat older kernel. However, I'm more likely to do so by cherry-picking upstream's patches than by importing Ubuntu's patches. There's actually a 1.6.11pre1 upstream release candidate in the process of being announced (e.g., https://github.com/openafs/openafs/releases/tag/openafs-stable-1_6_11pre1), which should work on at least 3.18rc5 (I don't have data about rc6). Would you prefer to have 1.6.11pre1 in debian experimental or just the 3.18- (and 3.17-)support patches pulled into debian unstable? There probably would not be substantial harm from puttin 1.6.11pre1 itself into unstable, but my general preference is to put prereleases into experimental. Thanks, Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
