On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > sascha wrote: > > > > > i've cherry-picked 65a5f2b3 onto olpc-2.6.35, and the autobuilder > > > did the rest. this implements a new "libertas_disablemesh" module > > > parameter which should keep mesh from being enabled. please test: > > > > > > > http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14-xo1/kernel-2.6.35.13_xo1-20120502.1603.olpc.bde819f.i586.rpm > > > > Thanks! Just to be sure: as it's been merged into olpc-2.6.35, all > > future official 2.6.35 based OLPC kernel builds will include this patch? > > hi sascha -- > > yes. i think we hope there won't actually be any more of those, but > if there are, that patch will be there. current and future releases > get the patch for free, since it's upstream. (thank you) >
Just because I like to inquire on what to many is the obvious :-) ... this change is *not* upstream for the 12.1.0 XO1.0 current and future kernels though, correct? KG > paul > > p.s. somehow the git hash i pasted above is incorrect. the correct > cherry-pick was this one: > --------- > commit 6bdbdbf4a151a3a1333818cd17a7d7795e936041 > Author: Sascha Silbe <[email protected]> > Date: Wed May 11 14:52:34 2011 +0200 > > libertas: Add libertas_disablemesh module parameter to disable mesh > interface > > This allows individual users and deployments to disable mesh support at > runtime, i.e. without having to build and maintain a custom kernel. > > Based on a patch by Paul Fox <[email protected]>. > Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]> > --------- > > > > > > The reason we've not gone the module parameter route so far (in > > Dextrose 3) is that we didn't want to divert from upstream (OLPC in > this > > case) on the kernel level. If it's included now, that concern is > > addressed and we can go this route, which IMO is technically the best > > option. It avoids all possible race conditions and only needs a single > > configuration file to be set up. > > > > Sascha > > > > -- > > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > > =--------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >
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