On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting James Morris (jmorris@xxxxxxxxx): > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > > > Hi James, > > > > > > here are 3 patches to fix up the user namespaces a bit in preparation > > > for real userns work to begin. Andrew had suggested that these be > > > rebased on top of your -next tree because they will conflict with > > > the credentials work. But it looks like much of the credentials stuff > > > isn't in your next branch. If you'd prefer that I port these to > > > creds-next, please let me know. I'll have to do it eventually :) > > > > creds-next is dead. > > > > Code ready for the next merge window is in the 'next' branch, while the > > current creds code is in the 'creds-next-subsys' branch, which hasn't been > > picked up in linux-next yet because of LPC and sfr's vacation. > > > > When do you expect these patches to be sent upstream? Are they ready now > > as an incremental change for 2.6.27? > > Oh I'm not trying to get them into 2.6.28, I'm just trying to get them > more widely tested, hopefully aiming for 2.6.29. They have been stable > in all of my tests, and the last patch fixes a real (behavioral - not > oops-inducing) bug in the current code, but I'm trying to figure out > which path they should take. I suggest feeding them into linux-next directly until you want them merged with another tree. Are there known clashes with the creds work? If so, the fixups could be carried in linux-next, or generate them against creds-next-subsys for inclusion after that. -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
