[uml-devel] Re: -bs patchset still useful for users?

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:52, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Vanilla can do, however -bs has one little additional feature
> > (mconsole-exec) and contains all bug fixes written after the release
> > (only few important ones go to -stable, they're very restrictive and some
> > -bs patches don't fix critical "regressions"/crashes).
> >
> > In fact, most times 2.6.n-bs is entirely merged in 2.6.(n+1).
>
> Great.

> Unless you have any strong objections, I will probably drop
> usermode-sources from Gentoo, and suggest that users migrate to
> gentoo-sources.

> The problem is that usermode-sources doesn't have a maintainer within
> Gentoo.

Given I do use Gentoo, and I understand ebuilds, is that problem solvable 
(i.e. by me becoming maintainer?)

Don't know well what this implies (I looked at "How to become a Gentoo 
developer" docs and it seemed require much more than what I do for -bs), but 
could still be pursued.

> At the moment I've been taking care of it, but you know how 
> clueless I am about UML. Also, it's a lot of work to maintain a kernel
> within a distro, and Gentoo have too many...

> Thanks for helping us out with the UML bugs, and I hope you will
> continue spending a few minutes here and there providing input. I don't
> expect you will, but if you have time, you are always welcome to send
> important UML fixes to me for inclusion in Gentoo's patchset (we aren't
> quite as strict as -stable). I'll be keeping an eye on the -bs patchset
> anyway.

There is an useful feature in -bs which isn't included in mainline (because 
Jeff Dike legitimaly thinks it's not something which should be in kernel), 
and which could be added to gentoo-sources, I hope.

 i.e. Mconsole Exec support (basically, it allows to say to UML to start a new 
process inside the guest kernel, without working network and such, and easily 
scriptable).

"uml: mconsole exec support

Adds the "exec" command to mconsole; the command is passed to /bin/sh -c, so
you know its syntax, and can freely use redirections and so on."

Latest version is at:

http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.14-bs3/broken-out/uml-mconsole-exec

Probably you'll need a link from the home page to this patch by itself (for 
updated versions, even if it's very stable), which I'll happily add if you 
agree.
-- 
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
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