[Devel] Questions about development kernels.

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:45 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > Hey all!
> > 
> > 	A few questions about the development kernel branches.  My Fedora 8 and
> > Fedora 9 systems are all now at 2.6.26 kernels but the OpenVZ stuff is
> > stuck on 2.6.24-ovz005.1.
> > 
> > 	* Is there any expectation of a release from the 2.6.26 branch any time
> > soon?

> Yes. I hope next week we'll have 2.6.26-ovz001 and 2.6.24-ovz006 (after this
> 2.6.24 will be frozen)

	Excellent.  I'll be checking them out as soon as they become available!

> > 	* I see in the 2.6.26 git repository a tag for 2.6.27-ovz-fork.  Does
> > that mean that the 2.6.26 repository is actually 2.6.27 now or what?
> 
> This just mean, that we have a 2.6.27 kernel with our patches for our
> purposes (there's no 2.6.27 repo, isn't it?)
> 
> > 	* How stable is the 2.6.26 branch?  Can a kernel be build with a
> > reasonable expectation to function (relative to the 2.6.24-ovz005.1
> > build which has been reasonable stable for me)?

> None of development branches were ever considered to be stable. The 2.6.26
> is not an exclusion from this rule.

	That's why I referred to "reasonably" stable.  I don't consider
"stable" to be an absolute, in any case.  Certainly not when I live out
on the bleeding edge like F9 for my day to day work.  :-)

> > 	* My Fedora systems running 2.6.24-ovz005.1 kernels are complaining
> > about auditd.  I see these errors from sudo:
> > 
> > audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
> > 
> > 	That's because auditd is not running and will not start.  That's not
> > starting, I believe, because CONFIG_AUDIT is not enabled in the kernel
> > build.  Anyone know of any reason why this could not / should not be
> > enabled?  I'll file a bugzilla on it later but was wondering if this was
> > one of the things that hadn't been gotten around to yet.

> Please, fill a bug with it.

	Done.

	Feature request: Bugzilla #1021

	http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021


	Many thanks!

	Regards,
	Mike
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