On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, 06:52 Salvatore Bonaccorso, <car...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Norbert, > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:44:47PM +0100, Norbert Lange wrote: > > It's been ages, why isn't this enabled by now? How should this driver > > mature when no one can test it (without going through the hassle if > > compiling the Kernel). > > Thanks for asking back. NTFS3 driver is still not in astate making it > confident it's wise to enable it for a stable release. > > > https://lore.kernel.org/ntfs3/784f82c4-de71-b8c3-afd6-468869a36...@paragon-software.com/T/#me2324a967514564949f7ebcf3f9a5965f66921bf > is an example (it took from august to now, until the fix landed in > mainline). > > I think thus the arguments from https://bugs.debian.org/998627#75 > still holds. > > Regards, > Salvatore Hello Salvatore, AFAIK kernels receive a ton of patches in distros, Backported and what not. Is it not possible to atleast build the module but either blacklist it or offer it in a separate package? If it's in a sorry state, then that would direct the complaints to the module, not to the configuration. Thanks for the quick response. Norbert
