El 2013-03-17 a las 18:17 +0000, Ben Hutchings escribió: > On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 16:24 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> > > Talk to the compat-drivers developers. > > > > To be sincere, I don't think that's a user's role. > > > > I don't know what's going on with these drivers but if they are not > > supported by Debian at all it would be better for all of us (plain > > users and developers) to simply say it so to avoid wasting time and > > resources. > > I would like to support them, in fact more than that I would like to > integrate them into official packages. But there is no way we can > support an OOT module that defines symbols that we might need to add for > our own backports. As it is 'compat' will ironically cause > incompatibility with Debian's own kernel upgrades. Understood. Thanks for the explanation, I was not aware of this. > Compat developers: please add a prefix (not 'compat', that one's already > taken!) to all the symbols exported by the 'compat' module. Just > #define'ing the function/variable name before declaring them should > avoid the need for any changes to the drivers using it. As per your last suggestion I posted to the kernel backports mailing list and it seems they already did something with the name, let's see if I can get more info from them. ¹http://marc.info/?l=linux-backports&m=136354363318801&w=2 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org