Re: Request to update megaraid_sas driver in Debian

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From	Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Request to update megaraid_sas driver in Debian
Date	Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:20:02 +0100
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On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 12:44 +0530, Shivasharan Srikanteshwara wrote:
> Currently the GCA kernel in Debian 9 is based on Linux 4.9 kernel which
> does not have inbox support for new MegaRAID Gen 3.5 controllers.
> Is there a way to include the driver update patches that add support for
> these controllers in the Debian 9 kernel update?
> FWIW these patches are already present in Linus' upstream kernel tree as
> well.

Hi,

the “easiest” way would be to have that updated included in a 4.9 point
release, which would in turn be integrated in a later Debian package version.

It might be possible to include that backport (it's been done in the past) but
it really depends on the size of that backports, the dependency on other
subsystems in Linux and the amount of work required to keep it updated later.

Regards,
- -- 
Yves-Alexis
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Request to update megaraid_sas driver in Debian Shivasharan Srikanteshwara <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com> - 2019-01-17 08:20 +0100
  Re: Request to update megaraid_sas driver in Debian Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2019-01-17 10:20 +0100
    Re: Request to update megaraid_sas driver in Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-01-17 19:50 +0100

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