On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:03:04 EDT, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > ibm-main wrote: > > From: "Gerrit Huizenga" > > > >> ... At the same time, it may be feasible to consider the f series > >> as a patch set against the -mm tree (e.g. apply 2.6.13 + mm + ckrm > > > > f-series) > > > >> as we are running through development, just to keep things a *little* > >> simpler. > > > > > > I've been navel-gazing about this. > > Is the -mm tree a valid basis for a pre-release "cycle" ???. > > As of now, both -mm and mainline are equally convenient as far as > getting the configfs patches are concerned. > -mm has it as part of ocfs2 (though its not independently configurable > from ocfs2) and the mainline patches are conveniently available from > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/files/patches/ > for the current linus trees. > > But going forward, -mm might be an easier source, particularly if the > attempts to merge configfs with sysfs get any traction. Also, since -mm > is the target tree for the ckrm codebase, it'll be slightly easier to > maintain the ckrm patches against mm directly. > > But your points about the instability of -mm are also true...so Gerrit > has to make that call. The comments above are concerned only with the > rcfs/configfs aspect.
Well, -mm instability is actually a definite concern. I've also thought about pulling in any dependent patches although that has a little bit of complexity with respect to analyzing the dependencies of any dependent patches. And, for submission to akpm, which is a goal of ours, the patches will need to ultimately be against the latest version of Linus' tree at the time. I'll need to try extracting a few dependent patches, applying to mainline, then applying the f series patches to see if we can create something that is usable and stable. That is going to take me a couple of weeks to work through. So, in the meantime, using -mm may be a short term solution if the stability issues don't start eating us alive. In the longer term, self-contained, minimal ports against 2.6 mainline would be the goal, much like the current e series is. gerrit ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
