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If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you! ** Tags added: verification-needed-yakkety -- 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/1637303 Title: Move some device drivers build from kernel built-in to modules Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Yakkety: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Zesty: Fix Released Bug description: Some drivers in Ubuntu are built as kernel built-in components, not allowing some module interesting features like blacklist on boot command-line or module removal/replacement. Also, modules has debug advantages compared to built-in kernel components, like the possibility to easy build custom-debug modules against kernel tree and replace them using modprobe on running system. This feature is a request to Canonical move some currently built-in drivers to module build system on Power platform, by changing the kernel config file. The drivers in question are: tg3, virtio-blk and virtio-net. The kernel config file parameters related to those 3 drivers are: CONFIG_TIGON3, CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK and CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET. They all are currently set as "=y"; we're requesting a change to "=m". Thanks in advance, Guilherme To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1637303/+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
