Re: status of userspace release

Ben Myers
2012-10-29T16:15:36Z

Hi Dave,

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 08:27:08AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:57:41PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:15:01AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> > > We're working toward a userspace release this month. There are several patches
> > > that need to go in first, including backing out the xfsdump format version bump
> > > from Eric, fixes for the makefiles from Mike, and the Polish language update
> > > for xfsdump from Jakub. If anyone knows of something else we need, now is the
> > > time to flame about it. I will take a look around for other important patches
> > > too.
> > >
> > > This time I'm going to tag an -rc1 (probably later today or tomorrow). We'll
> > > give everyone a few working days to do a final test and/or pipe up if we have
> > > missed something important. Then if all goes well we'll cut the release next
> > > Tuesday.
> >
> > I've tagged -rc1 for the upcoming releases of dmapi, xfsprogs, and xfsdump. If
> > we missed something important now is the time to speak up.
> >
> > Currently there are two items of which I'm aware:
> >
> > 1) the Polish (and German) translations of xfsdump are not working. I'll start
> > a separate thread for that issue.
> >
> > 2) Christoph has pointed out this patch series:
> >
> > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00323.html
> > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-10/msg00541.html
>
> I agree with christoph - the kernel side intptr/uintptr stuff that
> Jan did needs to go into the kernel first, and then brought to
> libxfs via a kernel code sync. A kernel code resync needs to be
> done immediately after the xfsprogs release so that usrspace is
> using the same base code for the CRC work, so splitting them to
> before/after the relases makes sense IMO....

Sounds good. I'll pull in 2, 3, and 6 for now.

-Ben