Re: Fixes to Etch kernel for use in a Xen domain 0

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 20:32 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:22:19AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:36:53AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 05:20:53PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > > > I'm not aware of any well-formed consensus yet - though there are
> > > > several ideas. I'll caveat this by saying I don't follow Xen
> > > > development at all, and didn't participate in the previous thread
> > > > about this (very busy at the time), but I do think the approach that
> > > > would be best for our users is to ship a 2.6.18-based kernel in
> > > > lenny - aka, Bastian's Option 5:
> > > >   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00476.html
> > > 
> > > What is the problem with Option 4?
> > 
> > My two concerns with that are:
> >  * Dropping support for a package in a stable release (which we
> >    currently only do due to unforeseen circumstances) and
> >  * forcing users to upgrade to a new upstream version within a stable
> >    release.
> 
> So nothing in addition to my concerns. So we are back at the decision
> between:
> - Full support, which currently noone wants to handle.
> - Support until we have something new, which breaks with some rules.
> - No support.
> 
> I know its not really pretty, but for now its the best we can get IMHO.

I agree (FWIW, I'm only a bit player round here...)

As much as I'd like to help with offering full support I think
realistically I'm not going to have that much time to give to it, at
least not with any guarantee.

I'm not sure that requiring users to upgrade to a new upstream version
within a stable release is all that heinous _iff_ it is well documented
in the original release notes as Bastian suggests. Assuming the andahalf
thing continues with Lenny (why wouldn't it?) it seems like a perfect
vehicle for something like that.

Ian.

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Ian Campbell

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