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

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> skribis:

> On 2018-11-11 01:15, Brett Gilio wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> Ok. Would my patch have worked anyway?

I spotted a typo: (eqv? (missing 'shpchp)) is wrong because ‘eqv?’
should take two arguments and ‘missing’ is not a procedure.

Apart from this the patch could have worked I guess.

> So where would that error message be produced?
> In gnu/build/linux-modules? load-linux-modules?

An error message is produced while building the initrd; see commit
4db7a9dc663c5b26e45ec35538bf68ff87acdf7b.

For now, what about closing this issue and opening a new one when we
have an idea on how to improve on this?

Thanks,
Ludo’.