Hi again. Decided it was finally time to upgrade my 2.4.6pre2-xfs, which has
been working great, for security and VM fixes. Just grabbed latest CVS an
hour or two ago (2.4.14pre3).
Thing that makes me nervous is that there was a minor compile error in gvim
./drivers/block/paride/pcd.c:
static struct block_device_operations pcd_bdops = {
owner: THIS_MODULE,
open: cdrom_open,
release: cdrom_release,
ioctl: cdrom_ioctl,
check_media_change: cdrom_media_changed,
} /* line 274 */
static struct cdrom_device_ops pcd_dops = {
pcd_open,
pcd_release,
[...]
Note the lack of a semicolon on 274!!! I added it and now it compiles.
Dunno if that booboo was inherited from Linus or from one of you, but you
might want to fix it. :-)
So that's fixed, but the fact that it was there worries me some! What other
nasties besides compile errors could be in there?
Also I'm a bit amused that the sizes of bzImage and vmlinuz are SMALLER than
with my previous kernel. I configured this with make oldconfig and answered
N (default) to all new features. Was a bit tempted by XFS_QUOTA but decided
to pass on it for now.
Think it's "safe" to put this thing on a production server? Again, my
"problem" is that it's co-located, 500 miles away, so a mistake could be
costly... but if it works for most people I'm willing to try it.
Thanks,
Micah
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