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Re: Kernel 2.4.2 support

To: GCS <gcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.2 support
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:02:59 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from GCS <gcs@c64.rulez.org> of "Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:08:57 +0100." <20010223230857.A871@esparrall.udg.es>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
> 
> As there were some bugs in the kernel which can cause filesystem corruption,
> will you release a patch for 2.4.2? I have tried to modify the patch (0206)
> and integrate it into version 2.4.2. Virtualy I succeded, but when I tried to
> boot with the new kernel, the kernel crashed, somewhere in fs/partition/check
> .c
> if (hd->de_arr)
>       de = hd->de_arr[MINOR(dev) >> hd->minor_shift];
> # I think this is the function:
> i = devfs_generate_path (de, buf, sizeof buf);
> if (i >= 0)
>       printk(KERN_INFO " /dev/%s:", buf + i);
> else
>       printk(KERN_INFO " %s:", disk_name(hd, MINOR(dev), buf));
> 
> Thanks your reply in advance, Laszlo Boszormenyi

The cvs tree is upto 2.4.2 now, and there is a patch out there for 2.4.2
as well, but earlier today the patch had build problems. I am not sure if
it has been updated yet.

Steve



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