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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:43:29 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans
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Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org):
> proc-sysctl-add-_proc_do_string-helper.patch
> namespaces-add-nsproxy.patch
> namespaces-add-nsproxy-dont-include-compileh.patch
> namespaces-incorporate-fs-namespace-into-nsproxy.patch
> namespaces-utsname-introduce-temporary-helpers.patch
> namespaces-utsname-switch-to-using-uts-namespaces.patch
> namespaces-utsname-switch-to-using-uts-namespaces-alpha-fix.patch
> namespaces-utsname-switch-to-using-uts-namespaces-cleanup.patch
> namespaces-utsname-use-init_utsname-when-appropriate.patch
> namespaces-utsname-use-init_utsname-when-appropriate-cifs-update.patch
> namespaces-utsname-implement-utsname-namespaces.patch
> namespaces-utsname-implement-utsname-namespaces-export.patch
> namespaces-utsname-implement-utsname-namespaces-dont-include-compileh.patch
> namespaces-utsname-sysctl-hack.patch
> namespaces-utsname-sysctl-hack-cleanup.patch
> namespaces-utsname-sysctl-hack-cleanup-2.patch
> namespaces-utsname-sysctl-hack-cleanup-2-fix.patch
> namespaces-utsname-remove-system_utsname.patch
> namespaces-utsname-implement-clone_newuts-flag.patch
> uts-copy-nsproxy-only-when-needed.patch
> # needed if git-klibc isn't there:
> #namespaces-utsname-switch-to-using-uts-namespaces-klibc-bit.patch
> #namespaces-utsname-use-init_utsname-when-appropriate-klibc-bit.patch
> #namespaces-utsname-switch-to-using-uts-namespaces-klibc-bit-2.patch
> 
>  utsname virtualisation.  This doesn't seem very pointful as a standalone
>  thing.  That's a general problem with infrastructural work for a very
>  large new feature.
> 
>  So probably I'll continue to babysit these patches, unless someone can
>  identify a decent reason why mainline needs this work.
> 
>  I don't want to carry an ever-growing stream of OS-virtualisation
>  groundwork patches for ever and ever so if we're going to do this thing...
>  faster, please.

Eric, Kirill, Dave, Hubertus,

In the spirit of 'faster, please', does someone care to port and
resubmit a pidspace patch?

I'll do it if noone else wants to, just don't want to step on anyone's
toes if you were already working on it.

thanks,
-serge