Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-04-09 Thread Mathieu Simon
Hi I've applied these approximately as requested, [...] Anyway, the end result is that all the driver sources end up identical to 3.4-rc1. Thank you Ben! Let us know if there are any important fixes after that, though I hope I'll spot them anyway. I'd like to give that kernel one a try on

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 13:47 +0200, Mathieu Simon wrote: Hi I've applied these approximately as requested, [...] Anyway, the end result is that all the driver sources end up identical to 3.4-rc1. Thank you Ben! Let us know if there are any important fixes after that, though I hope

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-04-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 14:04 +0200, Mathieu Simon wrote: Am 02.04.2012 10:55, schrieb Mathieu Simon: I attached a list with patches that hopefully arrives on BTS with It seems it hasn't arrived on BTS, therefore I send it in the mail. (Sorry for this long message) I've applied these

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-04-02 Thread Mathieu Simon
Hi, Ok, I have tried to prepare a list based on Jonathan's inputs. It seems v3.2.12 is the current base for wheezy's kernel. I attached a list with patches that hopefully arrives on BTS with: git log --oneline --no-merges v3.2.12..v3.4-rc1 -- drivers/staging/hv/ \ drivers/hv/ tools/hv/

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-04-02 Thread Mathieu Simon
Am 02.04.2012 10:55, schrieb Mathieu Simon: I attached a list with patches that hopefully arrives on BTS with It seems it hasn't arrived on BTS, therefore I send it in the mail. (Sorry for this long message) - Mathieu 86cbce4 hv: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() da24e90

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-04-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Mathieu Simon wrote: But I'm not fully sure about your answer, if I understood you correctly this means cherry-picking every single related patch from 3.4-rcX to 3.2.(12) let's say from gregkh. - Right? I suppose my answer was less helpful than it could have been. :) Patches in the

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-04-01 Thread Mathieu Simon
G'day Am 02.04.2012 02:36, schrieb Jonathan Nieder: I suppose my answer was less helpful than it could have been. :) Thanks Jonathan for enlightening me, now I was able to understand :) [...] The baseline for the current sid kernel is gregkh's 3.2.y kernel. When patches meet the criteria

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mathieu Simon wrote: I'd like to help getting the patches in right shape - if possible. [...] Does Debian prefer 1 patch per upstream commit or have one big patch per driver/file? I believe the kernel team is happiest if there's a public git tree based against 3.2, gregkh's 3.2.y, or some

Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

2012-03-31 Thread Mathieu Simon
G'day Am 31.03.2012 15:01, schrieb Jonathan Nieder: Does Debian prefer 1 patch per upstream commit or have one big patch per driver/file? I believe the kernel team is happiest if there's a public git tree based against 3.2, gregkh's 3.2.y, or some similar release like gregkh's 3.0.y to pull