[bug#33329] [PATCH] gnu: Deprecate linux-module shpchp and tell user to remove it.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Brett Gilio <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> If anything, what should be improved IMO is the error message you get
>> when specifying a module that is unavailable.  That’s not easily done
>> though since that happens at build time.
>
> I think Ludo is correct in this, an error message seems to be the only
> option we have to ensure that maintainability and reproducibility are
> respected. To add onto that, I was thinking that maybe it could be part
> of the configuration process that we could modify to ensure that all of
> the specified modules that are needed are available else it throws an
> error?

That already happens, but the check cannot be 100% accurate because it
relies on information from the currently running kernel, which is why
there’s the ‘--skip-checks’ option.

Ludo’.