Kernel development for Yakkety

[Tim Gardner]

On 04/26/2016 02:11 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:25:28PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> I've been working on getting some semblance of a Yakkety kernel working. You
>> can follow along by watching
>> 'git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/unstable
>> master'. Beware, some days this branch gets massively rebased as often as
>> several times in an hour (especially on Mondays when the rc's are released).
>>
>> There are currently PIE related toolchain issues in Yakkety, so I've
>> continued to build using the Xenial toolchain.
>>
>> The initial rebase from Xenial had some patch fallout:
>>
>> Seth - Could you have a look at these patches. I assume they are still
>> necessary.
>>
>> UBUNTU: SAUCE: ext4: Add support for unprivileged mounts from user
>> namespaces
>> UBUNTU: SAUCE: ext4: Add module parameter to enable user namespace mounts
>
> Yes, though I do have updates for the former related to changes which
> came in after 4.4.
>
>> You should also have a look at this backport to ensure that I did it
>> correctly:
>>
>> UBUNTU: SAUCE: cgroup: Use a new super block when mounting in a cgroup
>> namespace
>
> That looks okay ... I'm surprised that there were even any conflicts.
>
> I'm already rebasing that series onto the current -rc kernel pretty
> frequently, so it seems kind of silly for both of us to be resolving
> conflicts. If you want I could just start giving you a branch as needed
> for you to cherry pick updated patches, or something like that.
>
> Seth
>

That works for me.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com