• 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