[ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian: Apply Ubuntu patch to add DKMS support.

[Ben Pfaff]

Thanks.  Adding Simon (I should have CC'd him from the start).

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:13:07PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> This looks reasonable to me, but I'm pretty uninformed when it comes
> to Debian packaging.  Simon's input would be much more valuable than
> mine.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Aug 23, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > I tested that installing openvswitch-datapath-dkms worked OK on my own
> > Debian machine.
> > 
> > The bulk of this patch is taken from downstream Ubuntu DKMS support written
> > by Chuck Short <zulcss at ubuntu.com>, version 1.2.0-1ubuntu1.  I made the
> > following changes:
> > 
> >  * Update debian/.gitignore.
> > 
> >  * Update debian/automake.mk.
> > 
> >  * Correct description in debian/control (it was a cut-and-paste from
> >    the openvswitch-datapath-source description without editing).
> > 
> >  * Fix up for --with-l26 to --with-linux and datapath/linux-2.6 to
> >    datapath/linux transitions.
> > 
> > CC: Chuck Short <zulcss at ubuntu.com>
> > CC: Dave Walker <DaveWalker at ubuntu.com>