[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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