NAK: user namespace delta for raring?

[Tim Gardner]

On 01/16/2013 04:21 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The bulk of Eric's user namespace patches were accepted into 3.8.
> The remainder are mainly updates to devpts and some kuid fixups for
> various filesystems.  A raring tree with those patches pushed on
> top is at
>
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=serge/quantal-userns.git;a=summary
>
> Most of the additional patches come from Eric's tree, though a
> few are fixups for Ubuntu delta, plus a patch of mine to allow
> tmpfs mounts in user namespaces.
>
> With that kernel, I can run lxc containers in private user
> namespaces.
>
> Would it be possible to carry these patches as an Ubuntu delta
> in raring?
>
> thanks,
> -serge
>

I'm quite reluctant to carry these patches. I think they need a bunch of 
maintainer approvals yet, and definitely some bake time in linux-next 
(if they haven't already). I'd be a lot more willing to consider them as 
cherry-picks or backports from the 3.9 merge. What you are proposing 
appears to have deep and substantive internal behavioural changes that 
will be extremely difficult for anyone on my team to debug in the event 
of error.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com