[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#874751: blktap-dkms: module FTBFS for Linux 4.12

[Stephen Gelman]

I took a stab at creating a patch to get this to build on a 4.17 kernel.  It builds, but when I tried to actually use it, it caused a kernel panic.  (FYI I used the instructions at https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Mounting_a_.vhd_disk_image_using_blktap/tapdisk to attempt to mount the disk).  I’m a little out of my depth debugging this one so I wanted to submit the patch I have in case anyone else can benefit from it.

Having said that I’m not sure this package should even stay in Debian.  Popcon reports 55 installs and I can’t even find the upstream sources.  The closest I can find is https://github.com/xapi-project/blktap/tree/master/drivers but that doesn’t actually have a version 2.0.93…  Also, the last maintainer upload was in 2013 and the package has had 10 consecutive NMUs.  Some brief searching indicates that this may now be part of Xen itself anyway…


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