[Debian] Re: OpenVZ and the kernel package
dann frazier
dannf at dannf.org
Tue Jan 13 20:20:39 EST 2009
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:05:39PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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.
Maybe we should start a branch to queue up ABI-breakers. There's at
least one other one (hppa fix to load larger modules such as xfs).
--
dann frazier
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