The patches are usually made against a `clean` kernel. Were there any
errors when you applied the patch? Also did you download a clean copy of
2.4.10 from kernel.org or have you used the SuSE supplied kernel source?
- I would always recommend applying any "3rd Party" patches against a
clean kernel and not vendor supplied.
Also it sometimes helps to make a copy of /usr/src/linux/.config and
then running a "make mrproper". Once this is complete, copy the .config
file back and re-run "make menuconfig" verify that the configuration is
correct and then try re-compiling.
I would also suggest that you don't use 2.4.10 since it was pretty
unstable in my test environment, never mind a production machine. The
most stable recent kernel I can think of was 2.4.9, although 2.4.12
seems OK on my system, I have heard reports of it being `un-suitable`
for production machines.
Hope this helps.
Neil.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of root
Sent: 25 October 2001 11:14
To: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: XFS with SuSE Linux 7.3, Kernel 2.4.10
Hello,
i really need your help. I have to set up a SAMBA-Server on a
XFS-Filesystem because compatibility to SGI-IRIX is needed. I' m using
SuSE Linux 7.3 with kernel 2.4.10. glibc is 2.2.4-21, GNU gcc is
2.95.3-124, make is 3.79.1-166. I tried to patch and compile the kernel
with your linux-2.4.10-xfs-2001-10-03.patch.bz2 patchfile. Everything
worked fine up to pagebuf.c (see my logfile). It seems that VM_PAGEBUF
in line 2279 isn' t declared correctly. But as i don' t know enough
about developing in C i' m again urgently asking for your support and
therefore for a solution for this problem. I hopefully await your
answer. Thank you very much in advance for your support.
Greetings and best wishes to the XFS-SGI team
Robert
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