[Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy

Tue Aug 11 18:09:40 UTC 2015

Lets do one large patchset if that's the count. It'll be easier to deal
with at that point.

On 08/11/2015 12:40 PM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
> Yes, that would work. I'll prepare patchet based on 4.2-rc5 shortly.
> Thanks a lot. 
> Are there new srpm for me to pick up and test ? I'd like to have a option to test patches at my side prior to sending them...
> And one more thing - should I sent patches all-in-one or separate each of them to be available/reviewed at mailist? 
> There ill be about 80 patches in total.
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 7:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
> 
> We could pick a 4.2-rc5 fedora git hash to rebase to if that's easier
> for you. This would be fairly close to the vanilla upstream since I'm
> removing the kdbus patches.
> 
> Would that work for you?
> 
> On 08/11/2015 09:15 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>>
>> We've prepared more changes in order to support thunderx but changes are based at 4.2-rc5 version. To update kernel from 4.2-rc2 to 4.2-rc5 it would take huge bunch of patches. I've rebase them to rc2 fedora tree and tested with kernel you provided (build rpms and so on). No issues so far.
>>
>>
>> Would it be possible to apply them onto your kernel or I should rebase them to rc2 (which could be painfull) or other version ?
>>
>>
>> Vadim
>>
>>
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>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
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>>
>> I haven't, no. I'm in Cambridge this week so my free time is a bit limited. Next week you'll have my full attention.
>>
>> On Aug 4, 2015 10:08, "Lomovtsev, Vadim" <Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com<mailto:Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com>> wrote:
>> Have you moved to 4.2-rc3 ? If so there would be some minor conflict (apart from 4.2-rc2) which I could help to address.
>> Just in case - I've prepared patches for 4.2-rc2.
>>
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>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org> <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>> on behalf of Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org<mailto:jperrin at centos.org>>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 7:21 PM
>> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
>>
>> I ran into a couple applying the patchset, but I think this is mostly
>> solvable, and due to the fact that we don't have the kernel in git yet
>> for common patching/updates. I'll play around with it a bit more this
>> afternoon.
>>
>> On 07/30/2015 05:03 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
>>> Hi Jim,
>>>
>>> Were you able to apply patches and test them?
>>> Are there any issues ? if so please let me know...
>>>
>>> WBR,
>>> Vadim
>>>
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>>> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 3:58 PM
>>> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
>>>
>>> Overall, it will be easier when we have this alternate kernel plumbed
>>> into git and patches/pull requests can be done directly against the
>>> repo. I'll pull your patches a bit later today and try them out.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/27/2015 06:09 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
>>>> Yes, but not sure if did this in right way.
>>>> I've updated config-arm64 with new options and was able to build rpms.
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
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>>>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 10:03 PM
>>>> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I've been out at OSCON this week with somewhat limited
>>>> connectivity. Were you able to get this sorted?
>>>>
>>>> On 07/22/2015 11:23 AM, Lomovtsev, Vadim wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to rebuild kernel rpm but it fails due to new options in .config has been added, any help with that would be much appreciated?
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org> <arm-dev-bounces at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org>> on behalf of Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org<mailto:jperrin at centos.org>>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 5:03 PM
>>>>> To: arm-dev at centos.org<mailto:arm-dev at centos.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] CentOS kernel submission policy
>>>>>
>>>>> I've currently working on a kernel build that's based off the fedora
>>>>> tree. The commit hash I'm building from there is
>>>>>
>>>>> 228ccc4defbda4317b06d561e5fb532c774fe2e2
>>>>>
>>>>> My changes are mostly to the spec file, and the removal of the kdbus
>>>>> patches. You can find the src.rpm for my kernel at ->
>>>>> http://people.centos.org/jperrin/kernels/kernel-4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.centos.el7.src.rpm
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a bit more specfile cleanup to do here, but it will work to patch
>>>>> against.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/17/2015 08:53 AM, Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com<mailto:Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have some set of patches for our processor (Cavium Thunderx) and would like
>>>>>> to add them to CentOS kernel for the time while they are being submitted into
>>>>>> mainline.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any set policy for submitting patches to be included into CentOS
>>>>>> kernel? And which kernel version/commit I should base my changes on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vadim
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