Ack: [Precise/Quantal SRU] LP#1089970 -- Azure support for IP address injection

[Brad Figg]

On 12/13/2012 12:27 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have a need to backport the IP injection support to allow our images
> to continue to work on Azure when these changes go live.  Without our
> images will no longer be accessible.
> 
> Due to the high risk of regression rather than pull these changes into the
> master kernels I have pulled these into a new LBM module in each release.
> This new module linux-backports-modules-hv-* provides both the updated
> hv driver and updated hv_kvp_daemon binaries.  This both reduces the
> regression risk and also eases the difficulty of SRUing this into those
> releases.  The virtual images will be preloaded with this new module.
> 
> As this functionality only makes sense on the -virtual flavours, I only
> provide metapackages for those flavours (although binary packages are
> currently produced as the packaging as yet has no way to short circuit
> this).
> 
> The following four branches represent the necessary changes, for
> precise:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-precise-lbm master
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-precise-meta master
> 
> and for quantal:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-quantal-lbm master
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-quantal-meta master
> 
> full pull requests are below my signature for those who like those kinds
> of things.
> 
> The lbm packages have been build tested on i386 and amd64 and the relevant
> hv packages tested on the Azure cloud by our cloud team and appear to
> fix the issues at hand.  The meta changes have been reviewed by eye but
> not further, so some care should be taken post application particularly
> worth double checking the -meta package updates.
> 
> Please consider for Precise and Quantal.
> 
> -apw
> 
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> 
> The following changes since commit 2022b60cc6571adf5728e2b9b17067dad3418d0b:
> 
>   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.2.0-35.20 (2012-12-04 16:23:57 +0000)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-precise-lbm master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to f0e8f3ad3e4e6e4e8864f880a0020cb687aef877:
> 
>   UBUNTU: hv -- add an update script (2012-12-13 20:13:42 +0000)
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (5):
>       UBUNTU: SOURCE: allow CW to be turned off completely
>       UBUNTU: net -- fix up net build so on the relevant bits are built
>       UBUNTU: add LBM hv module containing updated hyper-v bits
>       UBUNTU: add hv_kvp_daemon to the hv module
>       UBUNTU: hv -- add an update script
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The following changes since commit 648e6202ea0eac4981c25801229b41b5c8666211:
> 
>   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.2.0.35.38 (2012-12-04 15:34:06 +0000)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-precise-meta master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 1f42cef40b0642cd46c44887538a8a9b58618772:
> 
>   UBUNTU: add the lbm HV module for -virtual only (2012-12-13 19:52:25 +0000)
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>       UBUNTU: add the lbm HV module for -virtual only
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The following changes since commit 3802d9d09c0578ce404a6ed5d3d65068b0fdc9a0:
> 
>   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.5.0-21.5 (2012-12-11 17:42:50 +0000)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-quantal-lbm master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to a5349f9929891c06d5422e75ee8ec839d8fc0311:
> 
>   UBUNTU: hv -- add an update script (2012-12-13 19:59:39 +0000)
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (5):
>       UBUNTU: SOURCE: allow CW to be turned off completely
>       UBUNTU: net -- fix up net build so on the relevant bits are built
>       UBUNTU: add LBM hv module containing updated hyper-v bits
>       UBUNTU: add hv_kvp_daemon to the hv module
>       UBUNTU: hv -- add an update script
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The following changes since commit 22577cc34186070fbb715dd8dc2ff30576acbfc9:
> 
>   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.5.0.18.21 (2012-10-18 18:14:02 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/apw/ubuntu-quantal-meta master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 35e8149b4c8defda6d2365107236cf406ff25abd:
> 
>   UBUNTU: add the lbm HV module for -virtual only (2012-12-13 19:51:41 +0000)
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>       UBUNTU: add the lbm HV module for -virtual only
> 
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> 


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