[Lustre-discuss] Patchless kernel support?

[Alexey Lyashkov]

Ashley,

I don't clearry understand what you want, if you say about patchless support on client -
typical size of adding support of one new kernel to pachless client is ~40kb of patch for lustre.
Sometimes is has more work, sometimes less.
As last lustre supported kernel is 2.6.32 - you should be plan to have ~150kb patch for 2.6.37 kernel support.
if you say about patchless kernel support - yes, that is possible, but that is need more work and submiting lots patches in kernel upstream.

On Nov 25, 2010, at 15:18, Ashley Pittman wrote:

> 
> Picking up from something that was said at SC last week I believe it was Andreas that mentioned the possibility of patch-less kernel support.  This is something that would be immensely useful to us for a variety of reasons.
> 
> Has there been any recent work into investigating how much work would be involved in implementing this and what's the feeling for if it could be done though changes to Lustre only or a case of submitting a number of patches upstream?
> 
> Ashley.
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