Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Eric, Kirill, Dave, Hubertus,
> >
> > In the spirit of 'faster, please', does someone care to port and
> > resubmit a pidspace patch?
> 
> I think I can get that one. Except for the very tail end though
> most of my patches probably won't be directly pidspace patches.
> I'm going to work on killing sys_sysctl a little before I
> get to far into that.   A pidspace is one of the most controversial
> patches so it is a bit tricky.
> 
> > I'll do it if noone else wants to, just don't want to step on anyone's
> > toes if you were already working on it.
> 
> If you want to help with the bare pid to struct pid conversion I
> don't have any outstanding patches, and getting that done kills
> some theoretical pid wrap around problems as well as laying the ground
> work for a simple pidspace implementation.

Yeah, I'll get going on that over the next week.  A quick lxr search
shows quite a few remaining hits on pid_t  :)

-serge
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