[Debian] Re: OpenVZ and the kernel package

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Moritz

I have started to look though the problem reports and would like to
report and also ask you some questions:

#510787:
 Refers to an other bug report that was not openvz specific. Should it be
 forwarded to an non-openvz version of the kernel or kept here?
 In any case I have added latest information to the report and told where
 the problem has been forwarded.
 Also it is considered grave. I'm not sure about that status. It is just
 some special usb dongle function that make the kernel crash. My opinion is
 that such problems are important, not grave. Do you agree?

#511165:
 Patch exist for 2.6.24 and 2.6.26. Fix is available in
 http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=b5e1f74cee5bc2c45bdca53a7218fb8de89215dd
 Not sure if this is an ABI breaker.

#500876:
 Fix available in:
 http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=777e8164ebf8a03e43511983cdec472f8691a8af
 Looks like an ABI breaker, but I do not know the kernel source good enough
 to tell really.

#503097:
 Reported as http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930
 No solution yet.

#505174:
 This is a request to go up to the latest version that includes fixes for
 all the ones in this mail that describe that there is a fix available.
 Unfortunatly there are ABI breakers...

#508773:
 Patch available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054
 Not committed to openvz git yet.
 Do not look like an ABI breaker to me.

#500145:
 I have just reported it upstream. No solution to this problem yet.
 http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143

#501985:
 From: maximilian attems <max at stro.at>
 the upstream nfs fixes are abi breakers and thus can't be integrated
 at this point they will be for the first point release were abi
 breaking will be allowed again.

#494445:
 There are a number of problems in this area. Fixes are available.
 However some of them are ABI breakers.

#500645:
 Fix available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
 http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=6d18ba377cfa3e86ee830fe6a5fce52b8fd51039
 I can not see that this is an ABI breaker, so it should be possibly to
 apply this one without problem.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:45:48PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Hi Ola,
> since you're the maintainer of linux-patch-openvz I was wondering whether
> you'd be interested in helping out with the openvz bits of the linux-2.6
> kernel package, which provides the official openvz images in Lenny.
> There are some openvz bugs open against the linux-2.6 kernel package (and
> patches proposed), which apparently noone has the environment/experience
> to triage/test so far.
> 
> Cheers,
>         Moritz
> 

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