For Oracular, iproute2 was updated to 6.10.0-2, synced from debian, without fan support as we had initially planned to drop it in oracular kernel. However, the current plan for LXD support still includes the need to continue having ubuntu-fan support in the oracular kernel, therefore we are working on re-introducing fan in the kernel and iproute2 will need to be updated to carry the fan patches forward.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to iproute2 in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: iproute2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2063298 Title: deprecate ubuntu-fan in Noble Status in iproute2 package in Ubuntu: New Status in iproute2 source package in Noble: Invalid Status in iproute2 source package in Oracular: New Bug description: [Impact] In order to provide ubuntu-fan we need to maintain additional kernel SAUCE patches that are currently conflicting with upstream code, potentially breaking networking eBPF APIs. To prevent such incompatibility the whole patch set requires a major redesign. However, after investigations and a detailed assessment we have not found any relevant real-world use-case that still requuires ubuntu- fan, as most of its features are now available in the upstream kernel and user-space tools, using alternative solutions. Moreover, maintaining ubuntu-fan is also slowing down / preventing the development of other packages (see for example LP: #2051672). Therefore, we are proposing to deprecate ubuntu-fan starting with noble. [Test case] We have ubuntu-fan test cases in our regression testing suite. Such tests are expected to fail with the noble kernel, so we can hint/disable them in Noble. [Fix] Drop (do not apply) the ubuntu-fan SAUCE patch set from the Ubuntu kernel. [Regression potential] There are still some existing tools/systems that may still rely on ubuntu-fan, so we may experience regressions when such systems are moving to noble. However, the potential of breaking eBPF networking has a much higher impact, so we can probably workaround any potential ubuntu-fan regression using alternative upstream solutions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute2/+bug/2063298/+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
