[Lustre-discuss] Patchless kernel support?

[Ashley Pittman]

On 25 Nov 2010, at 15:37, Fan Yong wrote:

>  On 11/25/10 8:18 PM, 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?
> I have made some small investigation for the patchless-server recently. 

> I am not sure whether you can check the following link or not:
> http://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/IT-13

No I can't, my account doesn't have the permissions required to read that.

The Oracle bug 21524 is what I think I was looking for but the more information I have on this subject the better.

Ashley.