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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Which version to use
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:29:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608082029.53613.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F8B837FF733995C731DEAA94540@phx.gbl>

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 06:52, Alejandro Liu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is a "current" version of UML to use as a guest?  I am currently using
> the one that comes with the vanilla 2.6.17.6 kernel and trying to use
> hostfs as root and found a number of bugs.

> Of course I went ahead and fixed those bugs but I don't know if I should
> send the patches somewhere 

Yes, thanks. To this list, Jeff Dike and me (and if you want LKML, but don't 
do that if you're shy or not entirely sure).

> or if these bugs were fixed in some "secret" 
> development version of UML.

No. hostfs is _at the moment_ unmaintained. There is a rewrite of hostfs 
(based on the new externfs), but it is nowhere near merging (it's under slow 
development since at least an year).

You can find the development tree here:
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/patches.html

> PS: Actually I did not set out to do bug hunting, I was just adding some
> features to hostfs that I wanted to use.
You could maybe post them too.
> The bug fixing was just a side 
> effect.
-- 
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08  4:52 [uml-devel] Which version to use Alejandro Liu
2006-08-08 18:29 ` Blaisorblade [this message]
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2006-08-09 16:06 Alejandro Liu

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