Bug#392015: [Debian] Re: Bug#478208: linux-patch-openvz asks for kernel version 2.6.18 while default kernel on lenny is 2.6.24

[Kir Kolyshkin]

As for mainstream integration, I can say OpenVZ is committed to merging 
"containers" functionality to mainstream. I have just checked the number 
of changesets submitted by OpenVZ and Linux-VServer guys, using 
up-to-date Linus' kernel git tree. For the last 365 days (i.e. a year) 
there were 818 changesets from OpenVZ guys and only 14 patches from 
VServer guys. These numbers could be wrong (maybe I'm missing someone) 
but not totally wrong.

Also, IMHO the document 
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines is not 
applicable to this case because it describes patches that are [not] 
welcome to "standard" Debian kernel, while OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, Xen 
etc. provide "flavored" kernels. In other words, these all are special 
kernels with special use cases. So, either this policy is not 
applicable, or linux-image-vserver and linux-image-xen are all not 
conforming to the policy.

As for 2.6.26, OpenVZ team plans to start porting to that kernel as soon 
as 2.6.26-rc1 is released.
<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines?action=fullsearch&value=linkto%3A%22DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines%22&context=180>