drbd driver: 9.2.7 -> 9.2.8

- xz compression added for module files
- no support for kernel 6.8 or newer
- sri format used for hash
- release notes for 24.05 updated

Signed-off-by: birkb <birk@batchworks.de>

nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md

@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ The pre-existing [services.ankisyncd](#opt-services.ankisyncd.enable) has been m
 - QtMultimedia has changed its default backend to `QT_MEDIA_BACKEND=ffmpeg` (previously `gstreamer` on Linux or `darwin` on MacOS).
   The previous native backends remain available but are now minimally maintained. Refer to [upstream documentation](https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtmultimedia-index.html#ffmpeg-as-the-default-backend) for further details about each platform.
 
-- The `drbd` out-of-tree Linux kernel driver has been added in version `9.2.7`. With it the DRBD 9.x features can be used instead of the 8.x features provided by the `8.4.11` in-tree driver.
+- The `drbd` out-of-tree Linux kernel driver has been added in version `9.2`. With it the DRBD 9.x features can be used instead of the 8.x features provided by the `8.4.11` in-tree driver.
 
 - The oil shell's c++ version is now available as `oils-for-unix`. The python version is still available as `oil`
 

pkgs/os-specific/linux/drbd/driver.nix

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "drbd-${version}-${kernel.version}";
-  version = "9.2.7";
+  version = "9.2.8";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1355ns10z0fjgqsdpf09qfy01j8lg2n7zy4kclmar3s798n3mh56";
+    hash = "sha256-LqK1lPucab7wKvcB4VKGdvBIq+K9XtuO2m0DP5XtK3M=";
   };
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "pic" ];
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     substituteInPlace Makefile --replace 'SHELL=/bin/bash' 'SHELL=${builtins.getEnv "SHELL"}'
   '';
 
+  postFixup = ''
+    for ko in $out/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/kernel/drivers/block/drbd/*.ko; do
+      xz --compress -6 --threads=0 $ko
+    done
+  '';
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = with lib; {
@@ -53,5 +59,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
        DRBD is a software-based, shared-nothing, replicated storage solution
        mirroring the content of block devices (hard disks, partitions, logical volumes, and so on) between hosts.
     '';
+    broken = lib.versionAtLeast kernel.version "6.8"; # wait until next DRBD release for 6.8 support https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd/issues/87#issuecomment-2059323084
   };
 }