Hi, I wanted to start a discussion about the plans for the stable kernel in the next point release, specifically where it relates to the Linux-Vserver patch-set. As we all know, the 2.6.26 kernel is the version that Lenny ended up with and the Linux-Vserver patch that was under development (and was still highly experimental and not complete) at that time was *not* released for that kernel, and so the version of the patch that Debian used was a backport of a snapshot of where things were at the latest point.
It was decided by the Linux-Vserver project to do long-term maintenance of the 2.6.27 patches, to coincide with the long-term maintenance of mainline 2.6.27. The reasons why this situation arose was related to the heavy virtualization changes in upstream kernel, causing major patch changes. As a result of this unfortunate timing situation, the remains in the Lenny kernel some significant issues that continually come up in upstream support channels, as well as in the Debian BTS. The main problem is the wrong filesystem attributes being used which cause major grief for people switching to or from that kernel. However there are a number of other issues that are also significant: - the missing TB scheduler - the PID 1 parent being wrong (initpid) - netnamespace (not a big deal, as it is broken in 2.6.26 mainline anyway, so it cannot really be used) - signalling fix (delta-sigkill-fix01.diff) - memory info (delta-cached-fix01.diff) Most of these issues could be solved by backporting the Linux-Vserver patches to resolve them to 2.6.26, leaving only the mainline 2.6.26 issues. So I am writing to ask what we can do to fix these issues, if the issues were backported, could we get them included in a point release? Or are there other plans that would resolve these problems? With a diff against mainline, this could be sorted out, but I don't know if such work would be used? Thanks, micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org