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KernelNewbies:
  • KernelProjects
  • modules
  • 2024-12-16

Agenda

Review topics for v6.14-rc1

  • The goal behind 3 new modules maintainers
    • Help with *both* Rust + C
    • Rotating maintainers every 6 month
    • About 2-3 pull requests per maintainer
  • kdevops kernel-ci

    • kdevops-ci docs

    • kdevops kpd integration

    • Linux modules kdevops kernel CI

    • Linux modules patchwork

    • github actions for linux-modules-kpd

  • Current testing:
    • C selftests
    • separate kmod with mocking
  • Future:
    • Rust selftests
    • Integrate kmod testing without mocking
    • Automate per tag testing
      • Can be a simple kdevops config, see defconfigs/linux-mirror
      • Just a playbook for ansible
      • Can be re-used for other automated testing we have
        • Fetch linux-next tags, for each run test, send reports
        • Fetch Linus's tags, for each run test, send reports
        • Fetch stable tags, for each run test, send reports
  • Future C TODO:
    • Making extended modversions default, no genksysm maintainer
    • Phasing out of symbol_get()
    • code tag allocation Vs kernel/modules/dups.c
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