Except of the masked gentoo-sources ebuilds (which aren't totally bugfree..) and the vanilla sources all other kernel ebuilds (i.e crypto, mjc, etc.) depend on outdated pre 2.4.19 versions of the linux kernel. Will there soon be updates or do you concentrate on getting gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r* finished? As I can see a lot of crypto features from crypto-sources already made their way into gentoo-sources. Cheers, tobias
gentoo-sources is swallowing crypto-sources, mjc-sources may or may not continue to exist in our tree, and if it does continue, it will be completely redone to include mjc's release patchsets as he posts them on LKML, similarly, other patchsets may get added. linux-sources will be disolving, lolo-sources will be for development of pre-gentoo-sources releases... the others (including xfs-sources, openmosix-sources, usermode-sources) will be continuing to be updated as releases are available.
Why don't you take over all of mjc's patches and put 'em in the lolo sources? Something like lolo.sources=lolo.sources+crypto.sources+mjc.sources? That would be quite a feature-filled kernel, which is always a good thing :-)! Besides, people aren't obligated to use every feature... You can then cull off any unstable patches when you move it to gentoo-sources. Not that I'm trying to whine here, but many of those extras have come in handy. At the very least, ya ought to have the latest XFS patchset in lolo-sources...
as a final note here, my sources include many of mjc's patches, but not all for the reason that we couldn't get his kernel to stabilize to an acceptable level for release... that was kinda what caused the transition to him hacking and me managing ther gentoo kernels... (well that and him having less time and me having more time ;-)) As we are able to incorporate more patches into my patchset we will, but with a release kernel for a distribution, stability must come first, and that is something that I've been striving to achieve. XFS eats me. It's performance isn't on par with ext3+htree or reiser both of which kickass and neither of which have data-loss nor have patches that touch half the kernel ;-)