USBIP in kmod-staging

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 21:14:40 CEST 2012


On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 18:51 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2012/7/16 Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com>:
> > I've been looking at what it will take to get the USBIP kernel modules
> > into kmod-staging, and it's just a added line.  However, the official
> > source of the USBIP userspace is also in linux-staging.
> >
> > To me, it seems like it would make more sense to split the userspace
> > into a separate package as it doesn't need to track the kernel module,
> > and it sure doesn't make sense to update it every time we push a new
> > kernel!
> 
> This is already part of the standard kernel module packaging scheme:
> there is a kmod-staging-addons that is dedicated for userland tools.
> 
> Please report a patch on the related component in bugzilla to ask the
> maintainer to enable.
> (and/or ask for co-maintainership).
> 
> Nicolas (kwizart)

That's great.  I'll go ahead and turn it into a patch for
staging-kmod-addons and post it on bugzilla.

Jonathan


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