On 07/05/2009 03:59 AM, Andrew Avramenko wrote:
Shawn,
Have Red Hat any plans to extend kernel with features which are
already in SLES11 such as dynamic extending of memory in the RHEL 5
branch or we should wait for RHEL 6 for that?
Certain ones, 100% based upon customer (or potential customer) demand.
We've had a few customers request dynamic memory to be backported into
RHEL5, and we're tracking the request through BugZilla 507705
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507705]. The ETA on this
would be RHEL 5.5. The process is fairly trivial, as the code is
already upstream in the 2.6.27 kernel.
Generally speaking, it takes us a minor release (i.e. RHEL 5.4 to RHEL
5.5) to backport a feature that's already upstream. Both the Red Hat &
IBM engineering team has to backport & test the patch, then agree to
support it, which takes 2-3mo. Customer requests make this process go
smoothly... so if there is something out there people are interested in,
let me know.
If there is a feature list people are interested in, feel free to reply
on/off list.
-Shawn
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