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Re: DELALLOC code broke module builds

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DELALLOC code broke module builds
From: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan <ananth@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:11:06 -0700
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <200004281726.MAA09282@jen.americas.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> >
> > Yes, pagebuf won't build as a module. I'll have to think
> > about encapsulating the opertions used by shrink_mmap,
> > truncate_inode_pages, etc. into a suitable function.
> > Perphaps, kick_pcd() is the thing to do, and make that as
> > part of inode or super operations? I'll fix it in the next few days.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > ananth.
> 
> How about just moving the defines of the two variables out to mm/filemap.c
> and exporting them to pagebuf?
> 
> The code which looks at them will not get triggered unless we have a page
> in the right state - which will not happen without someone using pagebuf.
> 
> I am building this as I type.


That should be ok for the time being.

thanks,

ananth.

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