debdiff and bug 829566

[Joe Williams]

 Andy, 

Replied to the bug ticket. Any thoughts on the likelihood of this getting an SRU? It's a remarkably annoying "bug" in monitoring our servers.

-Joe


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On Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:39:26PM -0700, Joe Williams wrote:
> >  I am running into a bug fixed with a couple of commits in 2.6.37 and started a ticket at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/829566 to get it included into 10.04 LTS.
> 
> Shoved this over to linux as its a kernel bug.
> 
> > jsalisbury suggested that I create a debdiff and could ask the list for assistance. The two commits that I believe are required are:
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=28172739f0a276eb8d6ca917b3974c2edb036da3
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=12dcd86b75d571772512676ab301279952efc0b0
> 
> The commit ids are the most useful as we can then cherry-pick them
> directly from upstream if appropriate.
> 
> > From what I can tell they should apply fairly cleanly. Any suggestions on building the debdiff and the likelihood of this being approved for an SRU?
> 
> These nominally are an issue with igb stats. The biggest worry here is
> the sheer size of the first commit. This changes the stats infrastructure
> for the whole of net from what I can see. Bigger changes like this are
> harder to justify.
> 
> Perhaps you could explain the issue as it affects you. There is little
> on the problem in the bug.
> 
> -apw

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