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Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's upstreamed?

From Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's upstreamed?
Date 2023-03-26 19:10 +0200
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 04:51:25AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> I have to build the kernel driver as an external DKMS
> module from:
> 
>     https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89
> 
> Specifically that is the rtw_8852be module.
> 
> That works fine, but it seems that this driver actually is present
> in upstream kernel versions somewhere in v6.1.x.

After asking about this on debian-kernel it was pointed out that the
driver is not actually functional until somewhere in the 6.2
upstream kernel, so is unlikely to be making it to a 6.1 LTS kernel
that will be found in bookworm.

It may be in the trixie kernel package and/or I may end up getting
it from some future bookworm-backports kernel package, so the
question still remains about the proper way to transition from a
DKMS to an included module.

Cheers,
Andy

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What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when it's  upstreamed? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-03-26 07:00 +0200
  Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when  it's upstreamed? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-03-26 19:10 +0200
    Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when  it's upstreamed? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2023-03-27 05:20 +0200
      Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when  it's upstreamed? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-03-28 17:10 +0200
        Re: What's the correct procedure for replacing a DKMS module when  it's upstreamed? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2023-03-29 07:40 +0200

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