[SRU][o:azure][PATCH 0/1] Include erofs in linux-modules instead of linux-modules-extra

Vinicius Peixoto vinicius.peixoto at canonical.com
Fri Feb 28 00:18:23 UTC 2025


On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM -03, Manuel Diewald wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 07:44:07AM -0300, Vinicius Peixoto wrote:
>
> The cover letter is missing the BugLink to LP: #2081613.
>
> > [Impact]
> > 
> > erofs is starting to see more use as a modern alternative to squashfs.
> > Since squashfs is already included in linux-modules, let's include erofs
> > in linux-modules as well so that it can be used as a filesystem in virtual
> > machines with just linux-virtual installed.
> > 
> > [Fix]
> > 
> > Clean cherry-pick to the noble tree.
>
> This is targeting oracular not noble. Since it's not a cherry-pick from
> mainline it is usually good to clarify where you're cherry-picking from.
>
> > 
> > [Test plan]
> > 
> > Build and boot tested; also installed the generated linux-image and
> > linux-modules packages to confirm that the erofs module could be loaded with
> > "modprobe erofs".
> > 
> > [Where problems could occur]
> > 
> > Very small risk of regressions.
> > 
> > Vinicius Peixoto (1):
> >   UBUNTU: [Packaging] azure: Include erofs in linux-modules instead of
> >     linux-modules-extra
> > 
> >  debian.azure/control.d/azure.inclusion-list | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.43.0
> > 
> > 
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>
> Reading through the LP bug it seems likely that we also want to include
> this in plucky. I'm not sure how far along the derivative in plucky is
> but maybe this should be re-submitted targeting both plucky and oracular
> while also fixing the other two nitpicks I had?

Thanks for the review, Manuel. I'll submit a v2 shortly addressing both
of your comments, and also taking the opportunity to fix the patch
subject format to conform to the new standard.

Thanks,
Vinicius



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