[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] [POLL] Putting UML/2.4 into "fixes-only" mode

[Peter <p.repliesignored@rimuhosting.com>]

+1

For my purposes I need solid, stable code.  I prefer a a 2.4 and 2.6 
kernel that builds without too many config gotchas.  And runs reliably. 
  e.g. right now I am using the blaisorblade 2.6.9-bs patches and the 
pre-hostfs 2.4 code.  That works well.

I'm all for different UML trees/patches that try out new features and 
make major changes.  And I will contribute to testing those if needed. 
But I would like to keep those patches/trees separate from the 'stable' one.

It is your time, and you can spend it how you like (obviously).  I'd be 
most happy if new work went into the 2.6 tree if that meant more would 
be done.  That seems to be where all new distros are going (not 2.4). 
And (give or take a bug or two) most of my UML instances run really well 
on the 2.6 tree.  If I had a really solid 2.6 kernel I don't think I'd 
even need the 2.4 one.

So if you can save some backporting efforts, work on adding more 2.6 
stability and new features (on the separate -mm type tree) that could be 
a win-win.

Cheers, Peter



Blaisorblade wrote:
> Jeff, I've seen the beginning of your work on back-porting all the patches 
> from 2.6 to 2.4...
> 
> It's a huge work, but what is more important, it could obviously hurt 
> stability...
> 
> So, I'd suggest to follow this policy to choose the work to merge:
> 
> - reduce *a lot* what is going to be merged... no new features, no code 
> cleanups (especially NOT the Makefiles cleanups)...
> 
> - concentrate on stability... and on backing out the hostfs rewrite.


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