post-352 drivers

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-02-02 12:30, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On 1 February 2016 at 19:45, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>> Regarding conftest.sh: given the new upstream build system, can we just
>> switch to using upstream's conftest.sh instead of patching around it and
>> brewing our own conftest.h? Although it does not work out of the box ...
>> probably due to the path layout with the -common headers packages. But
>> maybe we can just patch that?
> 
> It would be great if we could, as it would make maintenance so much
> easier. I've seen you already committed some changes to svn/355,
> that's great, I'll give it a spin as well tonight or tomorrow.

This just needed some understanding how it works internally ... and that
we kept calling into the build system in a way that "broke" conftest.sh
:-( , predating my maintenance takeover.

355.11+svn successfully survived my build-against-50-kernel-headers on
amd64 test. Not sure whether any of these modules actually works :-)

BTW, can you test whether we still need the ld.bfd patch? Some years ago
modules built with ld.gold were broken, see bug referenced in the patch.


Andreas