[Debian] Re: OpenVZ and the kernel package

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:05:53PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Ola, this is much appreciated! I'm adding Dann Frazier who's
being prepping the recent kernel stable updates to see when a point
update with an ABI bump is planned. There seem to have quite some
openvz patches accumulated so which break the ABI.

Cheers,
        Moritz