Re: To what extent should Debian modify the kernel? (Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!)
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:08:07AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
> > I currently patch my kernels with device-mapper, a few evms-related patches
> > and skas3. It would be very convenient if device-mapper and the evms
> > patches could be included in the the stock kernel; then users could use EVMS
> > or LVM2 in stock kernel images. This is especially useful in the installer
> > kernels.
>
> Is the device-mapper completely modularised? If it is, then I have
> no problems with including it.
I'm not sure what "completely" means here. If it means "doesn't touch
common code", then of course device-mapper does not fit that description.
Of course, then ipsec certainly does not either. Here is a diffstat:
I ran it through diffstat, and removed the files which are created entirely by
the patch, so these are the changes to common code:
Documentation/Configure.help | 14
MAINTAINERS | 7
arch/mips64/kernel/ioctl32.c | 17
arch/parisc/kernel/ioctl32.c | 17
arch/ppc64/kernel/ioctl32.c | 17
arch/s390x/kernel/ioctl32.c | 15
arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c | 17
arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_ioctl.c | 17
drivers/md/Config.in | 2
drivers/md/Makefile | 35 -
drivers/md/lvm.c | 9
fs/buffer.c | 29
fs/jbd/journal.c | 10
fs/reiserfs/super.c | 2
fs/super.c | 138 ++++
include/linux/fs.h | 5
include/linux/jbd.h | 2
include/linux/vmalloc.h | 1
kernel/ksyms.c | 3
mm/Makefile | 4
mm/filemap.c | 11
mm/vmalloc.c | 19
The only new object which is not part of the dm module is mm/mempool.c.
As you are no doubt aware, device-mapper is maintained, and merged in 2.6.0.
> For the other patches, please send them to me along with reasons why
> you think they should be included.
EVMS can work fine with only device-mapper, but it adds a few things which
are in separate patches, mostly related to device-mapper. All of them are
in the kernel-patch-evms package for your perusal, but I can send you copies
if you like.
These are entirely self-contained and modularized:
evms-dm-bbr - a bad block relocation target for device-mapper
evms-dm-sparse - a sparse device target for device-mapper
This changes only one module, which is part of device-mapper:
evms-dm-snapshot - updates to the snapshot target for device-mapper
and these are fixes to common code to work better with evms/dm:
evms-jfs - very tiny, adds a couple of calls to updateSuper in
fs/jfs/super.c; I think this may be needed for snapshots of JFS filesystems
evms-md-multipath - fixes to the md multipath module
I don't use JFS or MD multipath, so I can't really speak to these last two
patches.
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- mdz
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