[OpenAFS-devel] release-team meeting minutes 2015-05-06

[Stephan Wiesand]

Log: =
http://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/2015-05-=
06.html

=3D=3D Participants =3D=3D

 * Ben Kaduk
 * Jeffrey Altman
 * Marc Dionne
 * Mike Meffie
 * Stephan Wiesand

=3D=3D 1.6.12 release =3D=3D

=3D=3D=3D Linux =3D=3D=3D

The patch Marc submitted to resolve the recent GPLONLY issue is likely =
to be on Linux mainline (and thus -rc3) soon.

The proposed mmap fix (11124) currently calls osi_free inside a spinlock =
which may cause deadlocks. Marc will update the change.

A change backported to the EL6.7 (in public beta since yesterday) kernel =
breaks the OpenAFS client. Marc has ideas how to tackle this. The most =
straightforward way to deal with it would be to avoid using =
d_splice_alias altogether, but that would break the NFS translator on =
the few old Linux kernels where it still works (< ~ 2.6.25, in =
particular EL5). Doing that for affected kernels only seems more =
appropriate for a stable release series. Marc will try to come up with a =
patch.

=3D=3D=3D Yosemite/Clang =3D=3D=3D

11859 was merged during the meeting.

[11850 was merged after the meeting and pulled up to 11863, to fix =
11842. Review of the changes in =
http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,status:open+project:openafs+branch:openafs-st=
able-1_6_x+topic:yosemite-compilation-cherrypicking,n,z would be =
appreciated and help getting a pre2 out next week]

=3D=3D 1.8 release =3D=3D

The current priority change to get ready for merging is softsig (6947). =
There are still a few loose ends though, like which signals should be =
allowed to be caught (FPE and PIPE?) and test code that may not work as =
desired when compiled with optimization turned on.