Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans

Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-09T13:03:23Z

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:
> > Eric, Kirill, Dave, Hubertus,
> >
> > In the spirit of 'faster, please', does someone care to port and
> > resubmit a pidspace patch?
>
> I think I can get that one. Except for the very tail end though
> most of my patches probably won't be directly pidspace patches.
> I'm going to work on killing sys_sysctl a little before I
> get to far into that. A pidspace is one of the most controversial
> patches so it is a bit tricky.
>
> > I'll do it if noone else wants to, just don't want to step on anyone's
> > toes if you were already working on it.
>
> If you want to help with the bare pid to struct pid conversion I
> don't have any outstanding patches, and getting that done kills
> some theoretical pid wrap around problems as well as laying the ground
> work for a simple pidspace implementation.

Yeah, I'll get going on that over the next week. A quick lxr search
shows quite a few remaining hits on pid_t :)

-serge