[OpenAFS-devel] Moving Forwards

[Ken Dreyer]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer@ktdreyer.com> wrote:
>> 3) What is the policy (official, or conventional) for getting
>> backports into 1_6_x? I have cherry-picked several of Marc's commits
>> for newer kernels from master to 1_6_1 in order to get 1.6.1 to build
>> on Fedora 18/19 for RPM Fusion. I imagine that these patches haven't
>> been backported to 1_6_x at this time because Marc / Gatekeepers don't
>> have the time. Is it ok if I just submit my cherry-picking efforts to
>> Gerrit against 1_6_x myself, or is that going to interfere with some
>> process that the Gatekeepers already do?  I would love to see these
>> get into 1.6.2 or 1.6.3.
>
> The patches for Linux 3.5 were put in the 1.6 branch a while back, I
> think Anders Kaseorg did the cherry-picking and push.  I've just
> pushed the commits needed for the upcoming 3.6 kernel to the 1.6
> branch.

Yep, those were the ones to which I was referring. It looks like
Derrick's merging them faster than I can test them, so, cool.

- Ken