[pnfs] 2.6-latest rebase

peter honeyman honey at citi.umich.edu
Wed Dec 12 16:28:21 EST 2007


at the risk of sounding like bruce (heh) i eagerly await tomorrow's  
phone call for enlightenment.

	peter

On Dec 12, 2007, at 3:25 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 02:34:11PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
>> On Dec. 12, 2007, 2:42 +0200, peter honeyman <honey at citi.umich.edu>  
>> wrote:
>>> benny,
>>>
>>> the road map says you are "rebasing the 2.6.18.3 sessions code  
>>> through
>>> the multiple kernels along the path to the latest level."
>>>
>>> is that accurate?  or did you leap forward from 2.6.18.3 directly to
>>> 2.6.24-rc5?
>>
>> well, I'm not sure what the text in the road map meant exactly...
>>
>> What I rebased is the code in Ricardo's linux-pnfs-2.6-latest tree
>> which derived from the 2.6.18.3 implementation, was ported to 2.6.23,
>> and was partially (the session part) rewritten.
>>
>> Rebasing the 2.6.18.3 code base is possible.  However, following the
>> discussion we had on the mailing list I got the impression that we  
>> want
>> to move forward with the 2.6-latest code base and port the rest of
>> what's left in the 2.6.18.3 code base "manually" (in contrast to
>> using git for that).
>
> So Benny's rebase-chron is more-or-less a cleaned-up version of the  
> same
> content as Ricardo's tree.
>
> --b.
>



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