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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Mon 25 Nov 2002 - 10:54:10 GMT


On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Climent Jesus (NET-OSS/Espoo) wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:23:44PM +0100, ext Szabolcs Szasz wrote:
> > Hi! (Anybody here?)
>
> Mostly listening.
>
> > 1. Is there any news about getting vserver merged into
> > the official kernel?
>
> I had the chance to have the code checked by Rusty Russell 2 weeks ago.
> He agreed the implementation looks clean, but for the code to be merged
> in Linus tree there are few things that must happen:
>
> 1. People should start using it and providing feedback to the LKML.
>
> 2. More people should use it (maybe a major distro using it for securing
> bind would provide a nice set of bug reports??)
>
> 3. Linus should hear about it. And from people actually using it and
> finding it a Good Thing (tm).
>
> After the things above happen, there is a very small chance. Linus does
> not usually go hunting for code nor merges patches nobody has tested. At
> least, nobody from the "insiders" (i.e., the "unofficial core team").

for me, there are at least two issues left
- what would the "average" user do with ctx-features?
- if I don't want to use it, how can I disable it,
  without having some useless code in the kernel?
  (Y/n/m) configuration is missing.

best,
Herbert
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