On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:16:56AM +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > Am Montag, den 30.08.2010, 10:21 -0700 schrieb Greg KH: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:46:36AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> > > > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:50:17 -0700 > > > > > > > As I stated above, I need the ACK from David to be able to add these > > > > patches. > > > > > > > > David? > > > > > > I believe there were some regressions caused by these changes that were > > > fixed later, a bit after those commites went into the tree. > > > > > > I'm only confortable ACK'ing this if someone does due diligence and > > > checks for any such follow-on fixes to that series. > > > > > > It's a pretty non-trivial set of patches and has the potential to kill > > > performance which would be a very serious regression. > > > > Fair enough. > > Yep, thanks! > > > Who's done the checks to find out any problems with these patches? > > I'll skim the changelogs in 2.6.3[345].x to see if there are any related > patches. > > > And what is keeping you from moving to the .35 kernel tree instead? > > Basically, distribution support. Debian Squeeze will ship with 2.6.32, > as Ubuntu already did for their current LTS - and I really want Debian's > kernel to be as reliable and stable as possible (btw, that's why I > initally reported this as a debian bug, because at that time I wasn't > using vanilla kernels. Now that I know how git bisect works, it will > hopefully be easier for me to pinpoint regressions in the future). > > Also, We do not really have enough hardware to test new upstream > releases thouroughly before going into production (e.g., we only have > one big tape library with one big disk pool, so no test if > tape-on-mptsas and aacraid work properly and stable in a newer upstream > releases.
Then how about convincing the Debian kernel developers to accept these patches, and work through any regressions that might be found and after that, reporting back to us? thanks, greg k-h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org