693506 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.1.21 should not have been removed because of its ZFS support

Bug 693506 - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.1.21 should not have been removed because of its ZFS support

Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.1.21 should not have been removed because of its ...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2019-09-04 17:26 UTC by Chicago
Modified:	2019-09-12 22:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Chicago 2019-09-04 17:26:27 UTC

Hello,

    ZFS v8.1 (latest release) is compatible through Linux kernel v5.1.
    https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases

    The 5.1 kernels were removed from portage after they went end-of-life in early August.

    Kindly re-add sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.1.21 back into the tree so users of sys-fs/zfs-kmod and sys-fs/zfs will not need to revert to 4.19 based kernels.

Best Regards,
-Chicago

Comment 1 Georgy Yakovlev archtester

2019-09-12 21:29:00 UTC

EOL kernels should never be kept around for so long.
and if you don't delete old kernel it can stay in /usr/src as long as you use it.


0.8.1 unofficially works with 5.2 kernels, try emerging with

# ZFS_KERNEL_COMPAT_OVERRIDE=5.2 emerge zfs-kmod -v1

Comment 2 Chicago 2019-09-12 22:36:35 UTC

For what its worth, Linux kernel v5.1.21 came out after ZFS v8.1 did.

v5.1.21 was released on July 28th.
ZFS v8.1 was released on June 14th.

I have been doing as you pointed out is possible, by simply leaving the old kernel installed and working with it in /usr/src/.

I see the 5.2.1 Linux kernel also came out after ZFS v8.1 (July 14th).

If ZFS v8.1 *unofficially* works with the 5.2 kernels, then why not bump a keyworded sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.8.1-r1 with ZFS_KERNEL_COMPAT="5.2" set inside of it?