[Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend
Paul Fox
pgf at laptop.org
Sat May 5 13:04:45 EDT 2012
kevin wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > sascha wrote:
> > >
> > > > i've cherry-picked 65a5f2b3 onto olpc-2.6.35, and the autobuilder
> > > > did the rest. this implements a new "libertas_disablemesh" module
> > > > parameter which should keep mesh from being enabled. please test:
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14-xo1/kernel-2.6.35.13_xo1-20120502.1603.olpc.bde
> 819f.i586.rpm
> > >
> > > Thanks! Just to be sure: as it's been merged into olpc-2.6.35, all
> > > future official 2.6.35 based OLPC kernel builds will include this patch?
> >
> > hi sascha --
> >
> > yes. i think we hope there won't actually be any more of those, but
> > if there are, that patch will be there. current and future releases
> > get the patch for free, since it's upstream. (thank you)
>
> Just because I like to inquire on what to many is the obvious :-) ... this
> change is *not* upstream for the 12.1.0 XO1.0 current and future kernels
> though, correct?
yes, it is. the change is already upstream -- it just never made
it into the olpc-2.6.35 branch, so it wasn't getting into dextrose.
paul
>
> KG
>
>
>
> > paul
> >
> > p.s. somehow the git hash i pasted above is incorrect. the correct
> > cherry-pick was this one:
> > ---------
> > commit 6bdbdbf4a151a3a1333818cd17a7d7795e936041
> > Author: Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com>
> > Date: Wed May 11 14:52:34 2011 +0200
> >
> > libertas: Add libertas_disablemesh module parameter to disable mesh
> > interface
> >
> > This allows individual users and deployments to disable mesh support at
> > runtime, i.e. without having to build and maintain a custom kernel.
> >
> > Based on a patch by Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org>.
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com>
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> > ---------
> >
> >
> > >
> > > The reason we've not gone the module parameter route so far (in
> > > Dextrose 3) is that we didn't want to divert from upstream (OLPC in
> > this
> > > case) on the kernel level. If it's included now, that concern is
> > > addressed and we can go this route, which IMO is technically the best
> > > option. It avoids all possible race conditions and only needs a single
> > > configuration file to be set up.
> > >
> > > Sascha
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://sascha.silbe.org/
> > > http://www.infra-silbe.de/
> >
> > =---------------------
> > paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
> >
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