broadcom-sta 6.30.223.271-10 ADT test failure with linux 5.2.0-0.1

[Seth Forshee]

[Impact]
The DKMS package won't work with new kernels on bionic.

[Test case]
Install and load the modules.

[Regression potential]
This might break the functioning of the module.

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Testing failed on:
    amd64: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-eoan-canonical-kernel-team-unstable/eoan/amd64/b/broadcom-sta/20190522_042504_4eae7@/log.gz
    i386: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-eoan-canonical-kernel-team-unstable/eoan/i386/b/broadcom-sta/20190522_121138_4eae7@/log.gz

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Source package can be found: https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/lp-1830042/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package broadcom-sta - 6.30.223.271-10ubuntu1

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broadcom-sta (6.30.223.271-10ubuntu1) eoan; urgency=medium

  * Compat fix for deprecated get_ds function (LP: #1830042)
    - Linux commit 736706bee329 ("get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function")
      dropped support of get_ds and it has to be replaced with the
      KERNEL_DS macro instead.

 -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden> Thu, 6 Jun 2019 17:25:22 +0100

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Seth, or anyone else affected,

Accepted broadcom-sta into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271-8ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

Setting up broadcom-sta-dkms (6.30.223.271-8ubuntu0.1) ...
Loading new broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 DKMS files...
Building for 5.3.0-23-generic
Building initial module for 5.3.0-23-generic
EFI variables are not supported on this system
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars not found, aborting.
Done.

wl:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.3.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod...

Backing up initrd.img-5.3.0-23-generic to /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-23-generic.old-dkms
Making new initrd.img-5.3.0-23-generic
(If next boot fails, revert to initrd.img-5.3.0-23-generic.old-dkms image)
update-initramfs.......

DKMS: install completed.

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

$ sudo dkms build broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271 -k 4.15.0-70-generic

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
make -j1 KERNELRELEASE=4.15.0-70-generic KVER=4.15.0-70-generic......
Signing module:
 - /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/4.15.0-70-generic/x86_64/module/wl.ko
EFI variables are not supported on this system
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars not found, aborting.
cleaning build area...

DKMS: build completed.
$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package broadcom-sta - 6.30.223.271-8ubuntu0.1

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broadcom-sta (6.30.223.271-8ubuntu0.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Fix build failures for i386 and 5.3 (LP: #1830042).
    - Added d/p/22-linux51.patch
    - Updated d/p/20-linux414.patch

 -- Marcelo Henrique Cerri <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:10:21 -0300

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for broadcom-sta has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.