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[Colin Ian King <1566074@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My view is that removing a key testing module reduces our ability to
sanity check for regressions.  I'd like to be able to ensure we can test
the layer between ZFS and the kernel before we find out it eats data.

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Title:
  splat.ko is packaged

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I just noticed that splat.ko from the SPL upstream is packaged in our
  linux-image-* packages:

  https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-
  team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/9397038/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-
  amd64.linux_4.4.0-16.32_BUILDING.txt.gz

  $ zgrep splat.ko buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.linux_4.4.0-16.32_BUILDING.txt.gz 
   linux-4.4.0/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.c
    CC [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.o
    LD [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
    CC [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.o
    LD [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
    INSTALL /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
    INSTALL /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
  		kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko
  -rw-r--r-- root/root    344662 2016-03-25 01:59 ./lib/modules/4.4.0-16-generic/kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko
  -rw-r--r-- root/root    325110 2016-03-25 03:12 ./lib/modules/4.4.0-16-lowlatency/kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko

  splat.ko is used only with the /usr/sbin/splat testing tool from the
  spl package. I suspect we shouldn't include this module in packages
  that we expect users to install.

  Thanks

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