XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
From: [email protected]

Package: linux-kernel-di-ia64
Version: 0.54
Severity: important

I did a d-i build today from svn and the build went fine. However, when testing the 2.6 kernel I noticed a couple udebs were missing. nic-shared-modules-${kernel:Version} and scsi-core-modules-${kernel:Version} are needed on a 2.6 build; but those udebs don't exist under 2.4.
Can you take a look at this for us?

Reason is, some scsi stuff is linked statically for 2.4, while its modular under 2.6 - see #236699.

Now - a few possible fixes (in my order of preference)
1) figure out the proper way to make initrd-tools choose the v2 driver
and not the v1 driver. That way, I can make these additional modules,
and can document the procedure in README.Debian
(jbailey is the initrd-tools maintainer, he'd make a good starting point)
2) do two separate package list flavors for ia64
3) figure out a way to make a single package list work for ia64 - i think
there was some syntax - starting the line with a '-' or something - that
let you specify a given udeb as optional

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-mckinley
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C


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