CGL 5.0 - Git

[florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx (Florian Heigl)]

Hi,

as far as I can tell the carrier gaps document is far from complete in it's
current state.
furthermore the precise process accounting patch is iirc a test on how to
actually get
the community convinced to commit something the CGL group needs, thus the
extensive
documentation. As I just lurk the CGL lists I dont know if it even was
submitted to
undertake that "test". if I recall correctly it had generated some attention
but that seemed
to have worn off.

But in total there's probably still quite a few patches left.
kexec/kdump/netdump all
being mainlined by now the first thing I remember out of my head would be
EVLOG
which didn't get included because neither the posix draft standard nor the
posts
to lkml by telco admins or it's make as a plugin log mechanism were
convincing enough
to some people who thought structured logging must be bad. (ok, trust me I
do hate
AIX structured error logs, but anyway.)
another thing might be forced umount with process structure tear down and
this stuff.
someone from montavista could probably list the things where they changed
"panic" into
"kill offending process" and in general I'd say it would be great if the CGL
docs came
back to the level of detail they use to have.
on the other hand they used to have this and many, many of those patches
they used
were submitted to the linux community and i think a notable number didnt see
inclusion
not for code quality reasons but simply for being out of the ordinary.

maybe it would help if the CGL current members pick some person who
reevaluates
all "useful" patches and then someone should go through them one by one and
sort
them, and eventually re-submit.

one note:
when I still tried to apply all the CGL patches that were relevant to my
non-telco system
I DEFINITELY wished for a GIT tree with a working, even if older, version.
Probably this would also help with identifying the patches that need to be
revisited for
cleanly applying to the current upstream.

Regards,
Florian
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