Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:47:46PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:06:23AM +0000, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > If you want to be correct, you can't use linux-source. So the security
> > team have to support another kernel source.
> 
> A kernel-patch package that applies on top of the kernel team's
> linux-source is the approach I'd suggest. But to reiterate, if
> something in a kernel update causes the patch to no longer apply, I
> would want to have a reliable contact (hopefully 2 people) whom we can
> call upon for assistance.

If the lustre thingy is so important, why not add them as another 'subarch'
(do we already have a better name for those ? 'variant' maybe or something),
in the same way the vserver or xen images are done ? 

This would mean for the lustre-folk to join the kernel team though, and an
engagement from them to stay active and so on.

Friendly,

Sven Luther