My view is that removing a key testing module reduces our ability to sanity check for regressions. I'd like to be able to ensure we can test the layer between ZFS and the kernel before we find out it eats data.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566074 Title: splat.ko is packaged Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: I just noticed that splat.ko from the SPL upstream is packaged in our linux-image-* packages: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel- team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/9397038/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial- amd64.linux_4.4.0-16.32_BUILDING.txt.gz $ zgrep splat.ko buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.linux_4.4.0-16.32_BUILDING.txt.gz linux-4.4.0/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.c CC [M] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.o LD [M] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat.ko CC [M] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.o LD [M] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat.ko INSTALL /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat.ko INSTALL /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat.ko kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko -rw-r--r-- root/root 344662 2016-03-25 01:59 ./lib/modules/4.4.0-16-generic/kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko -rw-r--r-- root/root 325110 2016-03-25 03:12 ./lib/modules/4.4.0-16-lowlatency/kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko splat.ko is used only with the /usr/sbin/splat testing tool from the spl package. I suspect we shouldn't include this module in packages that we expect users to install. Thanks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1566074/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
