[uml-devel] Triage on the pending patches

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

Since 2.6.11 is out, it's time to decide what patches go into mainline first.

Here's my cut:

Plain bug-fixes -
	build
	no-kexec
	no-bb
	slirp-is-not-ethernet
	no-grep-st-ino
	fix-hostfs-gid
	usercopy-confusion
	fix-tlb-rounding
	ubd-config
	failed-net-hang
	long-command-line

Safe -
	cleanup-userspace - rearranges code
	syscall-speedup - removes code
	syscall-debug - makes some code configurable
	pread - adds a comment
	remove-useless-code - removes a no-op wrapper
	user-obj-cleanup - build cleanup
	x86_64-ldt - eliminates a reference to mm_indirect
	x86-64-warning - changes some errors from panics to printks
	error-reporting - prints out warnings where there weren't any before
	static-tty-chan - makes a bunch of things static
	stack-expansion - makes UML behave like the underlying arch
	no-mo-perl - generate config.c with sed
	

That's 23 of the 78.  We also need to resurrect the SA_NODEFER patch.

The skas0 stuff needs more baking.  The os-dependent code movement I'm going
to sit on until we have it all in hand and can clean it up.

After that, some of the cleanups like the ubd-mmap removal and tlb flush
cleaning can go.

winch-crash will be nice to get in once we have agreement that it's correct.

no-sys-ptrace seems OK, but it's large, which makes me nervous.  Maybe that's
a reason to get it in early.

fp-state is probably another good early candidate, as is no-bb.

user-constants-dep seems OK, but I just dropped in without understanding it.

random is OK, but needs a bit more work, in particular, it needs to be 
configurable.

				Jeff