[Noble/Unstable][PATCH 6/6] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Remove README.inclusion-list
Juerg Haefliger
juerg.haefliger at canonical.com
Fri Nov 24 13:28:36 UTC 2023
It's an old README from 2010 that contains some notes for kernel
maintainers. It hasn't been updated since and is not packaged, so
drop it.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger at canonical.com>
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-This README describes the reason for, and the use of, module
-inclusion lists.
-
-The original Hardy release had the notion of sub-flavours,
-e.g., a flavour that was constructed as a subset of an existing flavour.
-For example, the virtual flavour was extracted from the server flavour using
-a subset of the server flavour modules. However, there were some difficult
-mainteneance issues with regard to packaging, make rules, and scripts. This
-re-implementation of the sub-flavours philosophy is hopefully simpler,
-and retrofitable to all releases.
-
-A module inclusion list looks at the problem of of constructing a package
-from the perspective of what modules do we _want_ in the package, as opposed
-to what modules we _don't_ want. As the kernel matures, more and more devices are added
-which makes the problem of configuration maintenance a real pain in the ass.
-If we took the approach of disabling all of the config options that we don't want,
-then the differences between flavours will quickly become quite large, making
-it difficult to quickly compare the individual flavour configs. Each time a
-new config option is added then we also have to make a decision about disabling in
-order to continue to keep the minimal number of modules.
-
-A module inclusion list is applied on a per-flavour basis. For example,
-debian.<BRANCH>/control.d/${flavour}.inclusion-list. For example, the
-config for virtual is very close to server and generic, but the inclusion list
-causes the virtual package to be constructed with _only_ the modules described
-in the inclusion list.
-
-The inclusion list format is a simple bash regular expression list of files. For example,
-
-arch/*/{crypto,kernel,oprofile}
-drivers/acpi/*
-drivers/ata/ahci.ko
-
-These 3 regular expression forms are suitable for expansion by bash and as inputs to 'find'.
-See debian/scripts/module-inclusion for details.
-
-There are 2 log files created as a side effect of the application of the module
-inclusion list; $(flavour).inclusion-list.log and $(flavour).depmod.log.
-
-$(flavour).inclusion-list.log : This log is created while the inclusion list
-modules are being copied. If any are missing, then those warnings go in this log.
-While its not considered a fatal error, you should endevour to correct your inclusion
-list such that there are no missing modules.
-
-$(flavour).depmod.log : The log is created as a result of running depmod on the
-resulting set of modules. If there are missing symbols then you'll find that information
-here. Again, you should modify your inclusion list such that there are no missing
-symbols.
-
-Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
-June 2, 2010
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