On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 02:05:36PM +0200, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Ike Devolder <[email protected]> wrote: > > To get this discussion back on the right track I'm going to build the > > binary modules for virtualbox. Sébastien and myself already discussed > > what will be done so relatively soon those binary modules will be back. > > > > My plan is now to provide the virtualbox modules for -arch -lts and > > -zen. I think -grsec will be the exception since there are probably > > protections in there that will block some modules to even build. > > > > And when everyone is happy again we probaly should proceed to provide > > dkms for all out-of-tree modules alongside the binary modules. That > > would benefit everyone and offer the greatest amount of choice. People > > using custom kernels can use dkms and have everything working that way > > and people using one of the kernels available in the repo's can choose > > if they want dkms or binary. Everyone wins. > > Please don't add modules for -zen to the repos. They create a maintenance > burden I don't want to support. Let -zen users use DKMS; they never had any > prebuilt modules anyway.
That makes it easier for me. So we stick to binary modules for [core] kernels and the rest does dkms as a middle way. -- Ike
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