[Click] kernel patches for non-vannilla kenels

[Raj Sidh]

Armen,  Sure. Once I have such patches working fine, I will make them available. 

Roman, Thanks for the responses.Just wanted to see whether there is any interest and if there is any
location in the Click site itself where it can be uploaded. But I can
check back later.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Rajaram




----- Original Message ----
From: "Babikyan, Armen" <armenb at ll.mit.edu>
To: Raj Sidh <rajaram_s at yahoo.com>
Cc: Click <click at pdos.csail.mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2009 1:41:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Click] kernel patches for non-vannilla kenels

Hi Rajaram,

Our IT group has a hand in the setup and maintainence of our development 
machines, and they choose to stick with RedHat Enterprise Linux.  
Running vanilla kernels makes life harder for them, so we try to stick 
with derivatives of stock RHEL kernels as much as possible.

Although we are a-ways-away from using click in kernel space, we could 
stand to benefit from these patches if you're going to make them 
anyway.  If it's not too much trouble to put them on a web/ftp site, 
that would be great.

Thanks!

Armen

On 10/02/2009 03:52 PM, Raj Sidh wrote:
>
> Roman,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I was thinking more in terms of anyone bound by 
> the requirement to keep the 'Enterprise'ness that enjoy higher 
> stability, well tested distros (RHEL/CentOS, SUSE, etc) compared to 
> plain kernels + Run Click router on top. For instance, when I upgrade 
> CentOS 5.3 (based on 2.6.18) to a higher kernel version (without 
> waiting for, say, CentOS 6), I forgo a number of wider cherry-picked 
> inter dependent fixes that RedHat had found and fixed. My new 
> kernel-upgraded CentOS box is now suddenly not enterprise ready 
> anymore and various drivers (modules and built-in) are now normalized 
> to the new higher kernel version nullifying RH's changes. This may not 
> be a big impact on PCs as much as on high end server boxes Dell, HP, 
> etc make. Excuse me if I have been too wordy above for known facts. 
> Just wanted to be unambiguous.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rajaram
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Roman Chertov <rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu>
> To: Raj Sidh <rajaram_s at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Click <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:21:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Click] kernel patches for non-vannilla kenels
>
> Rajaram,
>
> Typically, people just upgrade the kernel on their distro of choice.  I
> used to run a CentOS based lab, and I just upgraded the kernel to a
> vanilla one that was Click compatible.
>
> Roman
>
> Raj Sidh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the process within the Click project/community to contribute 
> working click patches for non-vanilla kernels? Like centos, etc. Also 
> is/will there be any need for such patches on such enterprise distros, 
> given that Click repository already has patch archives for most of the 
> later kernels. Thank you.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Rajaram
> >
> >
> >
> >
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