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

[maximilian attems]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:47:27PM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> 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.

indeed the openvz upstream merge record is fun to watch :)
IMHO the coding style of vserver is not up to upstream merge quality.
even if compared to xen we are quite happy about its etch bug count.
 
> 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.

sure,
it is for random_unsolcited_oot.patch.
 
> As for 2.6.26, OpenVZ team plans to start porting to that kernel as soon 
> as 2.6.26-rc1 is released.

great,
please post git tree once it is public, so that we can integrate
the flavour for upcoming 2.6.26 Lenny release.

-- 
maks