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Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?



On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:53:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:28:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> I'd be inclined to push this kind of thing in general to the generic
> >> package so long as no generic code is affected.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:51:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Yes, but this means a potential need for new upload of all the kenrel-image
> > packages. Altough it is true that it isn't necessary to always have the latest
> > kernel-source to build.
> 
> This will be necessary for major security issues, e.g. CAN-2004-0415,
> anyway, so I think we'll be okay. The bit about latest kernel-source
> is rather hopeful; if we take this as a precedent for architectures to
> update generic kernel-source without updating other architectures'
> kernel-images, then quite a bit can be done in the future.

Not sure i fully follow you here.

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:28:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Let me do a closer review and I'll send in another followup.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:51:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Ok. My idea was that all thing that are (or are supposed to be) pushed
> > upstream, can go in the kernel-source package.
> 
> This would be great. Is it pending in the linux-ppc tree already?

Well, the marvell-mm patch is pulled from the -mm tree, and Christoph said it
will go upstream. I have no idea what the marvell-pegasos patch status is, i
think Christoph will be able to respond better on this one, though i had the
impression that he wanted to submit it upstream or something.

Both the pegasos and the g4 errata patches should have gone upstream. I posted
the pegasos patch on the linuxppc-dev list for review, and it was okeyed by
benh, who also said he would submit it (altough directly to Marcello's tree).
The same goes for the g4 errata patch, where Nico did a first version, and
benh rewrote, and said he would commit.

I have no idea what the exact status of those two is though, and i have the
feeling that benh has had other stuff in his mind these past days, so maybe he
didn't do the commit part of it, not sure. Also, i don't read the bitkeeper
commit logs from Marcello's tree, so i cannot check if they where applied or
not.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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