Re: Linux features for wheezy
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:47:03PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> - [linux-tools] build more tools:
> - hv (something to do with Hyper-V; requested by MS)
No Makefile, some daemon to return information about the system,
hardcoded netlink stuff.
> - usbip (#568362); the current usbip userland package is apparently
> *incompatible* with the usbip driver we build!
Okay. However I don't understand, why this tools are so tightly coupled.
> - lguest (#457652)
No. This is no tool, this is an example.
> - btrfs improvements (rebalance, general performance, error handling)
> - do these have any dependencies on VFS changes?
> - network teaming driver
> - network byte queue limits (anti-bufferbloat)
> - [armhf] LPAE support
> - procfs hidepid and hidegid mount options (#669028)
> - CPU autoloading support
> - discussed in http://bugs.debian.org/654957#20
> - depends on conversion of CPU sysdevs to ordinary devices
> - fixes for THP with slow writeback (#675493)
> - seccomp filters and no_new_privs (#675615)
Okay.
> - yama LSM
Looks like a place to put restrictions that have no other place.
> - [arm] BPF JIT compiler
Okay.
> - rename to linux
Can we do the moving of bugs without breaking too much?
> - move bug scripts to linux-base
> - move more maintainer script logic to linux-base
Okay.
> - convert each patch series to quilt format
> - possibly also convert to source format 3.0 (quilt)
Works.
Bastian
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