On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:52, Daniel Drake wrote: > Blaisorblade wrote: > > Vanilla can do, however -bs has one little additional feature > > (mconsole-exec) and contains all bug fixes written after the release > > (only few important ones go to -stable, they're very restrictive and some > > -bs patches don't fix critical "regressions"/crashes). > > > > In fact, most times 2.6.n-bs is entirely merged in 2.6.(n+1). > > Great.
> Unless you have any strong objections, I will probably drop > usermode-sources from Gentoo, and suggest that users migrate to > gentoo-sources. > The problem is that usermode-sources doesn't have a maintainer within > Gentoo. Given I do use Gentoo, and I understand ebuilds, is that problem solvable (i.e. by me becoming maintainer?) Don't know well what this implies (I looked at "How to become a Gentoo developer" docs and it seemed require much more than what I do for -bs), but could still be pursued. > At the moment I've been taking care of it, but you know how > clueless I am about UML. Also, it's a lot of work to maintain a kernel > within a distro, and Gentoo have too many... > Thanks for helping us out with the UML bugs, and I hope you will > continue spending a few minutes here and there providing input. I don't > expect you will, but if you have time, you are always welcome to send > important UML fixes to me for inclusion in Gentoo's patchset (we aren't > quite as strict as -stable). I'll be keeping an eye on the -bs patchset > anyway. There is an useful feature in -bs which isn't included in mainline (because Jeff Dike legitimaly thinks it's not something which should be in kernel), and which could be added to gentoo-sources, I hope. i.e. Mconsole Exec support (basically, it allows to say to UML to start a new process inside the guest kernel, without working network and such, and easily scriptable). "uml: mconsole exec support Adds the "exec" command to mconsole; the command is passed to /bin/sh -c, so you know its syntax, and can freely use redirections and so on." Latest version is at: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.14-bs3/broken-out/uml-mconsole-exec Probably you'll need a link from the home page to this patch by itself (for updated versions, even if it's very stable), which I'll happily add if you agree. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
