From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C4kYA-0005CC-UP for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:18:38 -0700 Received: from smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.35]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4kY8-00078n-D7 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:18:38 -0700 From: BlaisorBlade Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Current state of UML - some help needed from mainline. References: <200408190301.i7J30xek004150@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <413B76DB.5010600@pobox.com> <200409061956.34557.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> In-Reply-To: <200409061956.34557.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409072013.49494.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:13:49 +0200 To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jeff Garzik , Jeff Dike , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org For LKML: I'm not subscribed, so don't forget to CC me. On Monday 06 September 2004 19:56, BlaisorBlade wrote: > On Sunday 05 September 2004 22:28, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Overall I am really impressed. Like other arches in the Linux kernel, > > it is IMO very important to be able to work "out of the box", without > > patches. Yes - especially when microAPI changes happen every day, as of 2.6. I've just downloaded a snapshot including the merge, so I'll be able to merge some little fixes which have happened since. Do you think that keeping a UML tree for new, experimental features is a good idea, or that this role should go to -mm? I ask this also because I don't know how much would help general review for new features. For instance, the "hostfs" feature is in the middle of a rewrite and the new code is still very broken (the current release says more or less "VFS: busy inodes after unmount - self destroying in 5 seconds. Have a nice day", but maybe this is fixed; plus has a number of other bugs). Also, SMP hasn't compiled for a while, so there is a number of locking problem - at least one straight deadlock in the ubd driver when passing ubd=sync. It's not a hard problem - just not yet fixed it. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel