Enable module autoloading support for vio

Enable module autoloading support for vio

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Dave!

I have again revised my patches and fixed the indentation as suggested by
Sam Ravnborg. I am furthermore sending the patches in the way Sam suggested,
so I hope the patches have the desired quality now.

Thanks,
Adrian

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Re: Enable module autoloading support for vio

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

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Hi Dave!

On 04/14/2016 08:14 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I have again revised my patches and fixed the indentation as suggested by
> Sam Ravnborg. I am furthermore sending the patches in the way Sam suggested,
> so I hope the patches have the desired quality now.

Have you found the time to look at this yet? It would be great to have
the two patches reviewed soon and - if they turn out fine - merge
them.

In Debian, we have a policy for kernel patches which allows such patches
to be merged only once they have been merged upstream by the subsystem
maintainer [1].  And we need the patches merged so we can address the
problem people have installing Debian sparc64 within a LDOMs.

Cheers,
Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug5977#88

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Re: Enable module autoloading support for vio

[David Miller]

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:49:27 +0200

> In Debian, we have a policy for kernel patches which allows such patches
> to be merged only once they have been merged upstream by the subsystem
> maintainer [1].

Putting such a roadblock towards users having a working system is a
matter of your policies and is therefore your problem.  Please don't
try to make it mine too.

I will review your patch when I feel that I have the time and the
proper resources to do so.

This might be today, or it might be next week, or the week after.

You must be patient since I do this for fun and in my spare time, and
not because of deadlines and pressure applied by other people.

Thanks.

Re: Enable module autoloading support for vio

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 04/21/2016 06:01 PM, David Miller wrote:
> Putting such a roadblock towards users having a working system is a
> matter of your policies and is therefore your problem.  Please don't
> try to make it mine too.

I wasn't trying to make it your problem, sorry. This isn't my policy,
it's Debian's policy and I can't really change it, at least on my
own. If it was just up to me, I would merge the patch in the Debian
package, but I'm not maintaining the kernel in Debian, so I have
no word in there.

> I will review your patch when I feel that I have the time and the
> proper resources to do so.
> 
> This might be today, or it might be next week, or the week after.

Ok, thanks.

> You must be patient since I do this for fun and in my spare time, and
> not because of deadlines and pressure applied by other people.

Same here. I'm not getting paid in any way and my actual job
is unrelated to SPARC, but I just want to help people who are
having issues installing Linux on their SPARC boxes.

Adrian

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