Feeding containers patches into linux-next

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Tue Jul 15 11:56:21 PDT 2008


Dave Hansen <dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 10:50 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> The classic challenge is that we really need most of the patches to go
>> through other maintainers because they are not for subsystems we
>> maintain.  So I am fairly certain things like our network namespace
>> work will show up in linux-next because they show up in net-next-2.6.
>
> But, there are things like the mqueue patches that are against areas
> that really have no maintainers.  Do you think there will be many more
> like that?  

Probably.  We are touching parts of the kernel that rarely change.

Eric


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