various breakages with 3.x kernels -- patches

[Paul McClay]

(for other readers: The martian-modem-source package delivers source for the martian_dev kernel module required to make the martian-modem package useful. It is not source for the martian-modem package.)

3.x kernels have introduced a few obstacles to building the martian-dev module for "martian" modems. The attached patch file reflects fixes that worked with kernel 3.13 for me. I tried to not not break compatibility with earlier kernels but didn't test any of that. Things broken/fixed for me:

. with kernel 3.8 a bunch of __dev* macros went away
. kernel 3.10 introduced procfs changes
. post-2.6 kernels get the .o object file instead of .ko

Adding a link martian-modem-source -> default.sh in /usr/share/modass/packages/ makes this package visible to module-assistant. Mention that? Maybe in control.modules.in? (not in patch)

Matt Schultz had this almost solved in January: http://linmodems.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?1:mss:38424:201401

Debian bug 696500 is a subset of this.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696500
(this reported here because reportbug said to use ubuntu-bug)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: martian-modem-source 20080625-2 [modified: usr/src/martian-modem.tar.bz2]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Tue May 27 19:18:58 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-21 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: martian-modem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul McClay (pmc-b)]

bug 577709 - against the martian-modem package (not martian-modem-source) - describes how the martian-modem package almost delivers the link that would make module-assistant see this. Seems it would make more sense to include that link (corrected) in the martian-modem-source package. But is that fair play, for either package, if the package does not have module-assistant as a dependency?

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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