[SRU] Kernel too big for boot partition

[Kyle Fazzari]

[Impact]

 * Recent additions to the mako kernel have made it too big for the mako boot partition. Without this patch, a boot.img cannot be created.

[Test Case]

 1. Compile the mako kernel without this patch.
 2. Attempt to create a boot.img
 3. Notice that the kernel is too big.
 4. Apply this patch.
 5. Run steps 1-2 again.
 6. Notice that the kernel is no longer too big.

[Regression Potential]

 * This patch removes ext2 and ext3 and enables ext4's backward-compatibility mode for them instead. The only regression potential is within ext4's backward-compatibility.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-mako - 3.4.0-7.41

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linux-mako (3.4.0-7.41) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Subject:[Config] Enable squashfs for mako.
    - LP: #1513207
  * Subject:[Config] Replace EXT{2,3} with EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23.
    - LP: #1513463

 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Nov 2015 13:15:51 -0700

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello Kyle, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-mako into wily-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-mako/3.4.0-7.41~15.10.1 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 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 to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

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

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The fix for this bug has been awaiting testing feedback in the -proposed repository for wily for more than 90 days. Please test this fix and update the bug appropriately with the results. In the event that the fix for this bug is still not verified 15 days from now, the package will be removed from the -proposed repository.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The version of linux-mako in the proposed pocket of Wily that was purported to fix this bug report has been removed because the bugs that were to be fixed by the upload were not verified in a timely (105 days) fashion.