Re: [uml-devel] Current state of UML - some help needed from mainline.

[BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>]

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On Monday 06 September 2004 19:56, BlaisorBlade wrote:
> On Sunday 05 September 2004 22:28, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Overall I am really impressed.  Like other arches in the Linux kernel,
> > it is IMO very important to be able to work "out of the box", without
> > patches.
Yes - especially when microAPI changes happen every day, as of 2.6. I've just 
downloaded a snapshot including the merge, so I'll be able to merge some 
little fixes which have happened since.

Do you think that keeping a UML tree for new, experimental features is a good 
idea, or that this role should go to -mm?

I ask this also because I don't know how much would help general review for 
new features.

For instance, the "hostfs" feature is in the middle of a rewrite and the new 
code is still very broken (the current release says more or less "VFS: busy 
inodes after unmount - self destroying in 5 seconds. Have a nice day", but 
maybe this is fixed; plus has a number of other bugs).

Also, SMP hasn't compiled for a while, so there is a number of locking problem 
- at least one straight deadlock in the ubd driver when passing ubd=sync. 
It's not a hard problem - just not yet fixed it.
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729