Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:06:23AM +, Bastian Blank wrote: >> If you want to be correct, you can't use linux-source. So the security >> team have to support another kernel source. > > A kernel-patch package that applies on top of the kernel team's > l

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:47:46PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:06:23AM +, Bastian Blank wrote: > > If you want to be correct, you can't use linux-source. So the security > > team have to support another kernel source. > > A kernel-patch package that applies on top o

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:06:23AM +, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> If you want to be correct, you can't use linux-source. So the security >> team have to support another kernel source. >> > > A kernel-patch package that applies on top of the kernel team's > linux-sour

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-02 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:06:23AM +, Bastian Blank wrote: > If you want to be correct, you can't use linux-source. So the security > team have to support another kernel source. A kernel-patch package that applies on top of the kernel team's linux-source is the approach I'd suggest. But to rei

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How big is the patchset these days, and what does it touch? I haven't > messed with Lustre since 2.4.20 where the core patches were mostly > adding intents, etc - stuff that I thought had been merged upstream in > 2.6. There still is a lot of patching in

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:59:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Now to my question. Lustre needs a specialy patched kernel Why? Ah I see, they don't know how to abstract that and get informations how to do that properly from upstream. >

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-01 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:59:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sorry, I hit the wrong button (send instead of save) so here we go again: > > Hi, > > I took over the ITP (237713) for Lustre from Andres Salomon and > recently Alastair McKinstry also showed interest in this. Both of use > u

Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sorry, I hit the wrong button (send instead of save) so here we go again: Hi, I took over the ITP (237713) for Lustre from Andres Salomon and recently Alastair McKinstry also showed interest in this. Both of use use Lustre at work so there will be some paid time spend on keeping this current. No

Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I took over the ITP for Lustre from <> and recently <> also showed interest in this. Both of use use Lustre at work so there will be some paid time spend on keeping this current. Now to my question. Lustre needs a specialy patched kernel and builds a ton (~100MB uncompressed) of kernel module