Hi, On 1/5/26 01:05, Miao Wang wrote:
Description : DKMS package for YT6801 network driver
Is there a name a user would recognize this under?
The YT6801 is a high-performance Ethernet controller designed by Motor-comm Corporation, offering advanced networking features and reliable connectivity for various applications.
This sentence provides no information to users beyond "Ethernet". The "Ethernet" should probably go into the short description.
Please think from the point of view of an user trying to decide if they want to install this package, not that of a mainboard manufacturer deciding on an Ethernet chipset to use. The user will have heard the name of the OEM selling the box, but not of the manufacturers of individual ICs.
The first paragraph should probably be something like
The Motor-comm YT6801 Ethernet controller is often found in X or Y
brand mini PCs and laptops built in or after 2025.
so users can see at a glance if this is even interesting to them, and
full-text search can still match on the manufacturer name.
You can add a paragraph like
This package automatically builds and installs the kernel module.
if you feel like the description is too short otherwise.
I plan to maintain this package, regularly synchronize with the driver source code from its official website and fix possible compilation issues with different versions of linux kernel.
Is there a timeline on integration with the mainline kernel? If it looks like there will be a stable Debian release without this driver in mainline, it may also be necessary to build an udeb to make it available in the installer, and a mechanism to add the dkms package to the installed system.
Also, you might need a plan for what happens when the driver is added to mainline kernels. DKMS modules go into a separate directory below /lib/modules/, but may still conflict with modules from the mainline kernel. Most DKMS packages do not have this problem because they remain out-of-tree for some good reason (e.g. "five users worldwide" or "must match userspace"), so few of them handle this case, but yours might need to.
Simon
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