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Re: 2.4.22-pre patches

To: Net Llama! <netllama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre patches
From: Matteo Centonza <matteo@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:46:51 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3EFA1A66.6060403@linux-sxs.org>
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Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Net Llama! wrote:

> On 06/25/03 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:19:08PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:56, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> > Anyone know if/when the cvs snapshots will cleanly apply against the
> >> > 2.4.22-pre1 kernel?  I'd really like to use it, as the acpi support is
> >> > significantly better than what was in 2.4.21(-final).
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> Your best bet is to take the xfs cvs kernel, and apply the 2.4.22-pre
> >> patch to it. Apart from kdb, it is usually pretty clean.
> > 
> > I don't think it's that easy.  2.4.22-pre has the O_DIRECT changes from sct.
> > Fixing XFS so that it compiles isn't that difficult (just some conflicts
> > in filemap.c) but it's much more work to not cripple XFS O_DIRECT support
> > due to these new locks.  Without any changes all O_DIRECT I/O would happen
> > with i_sem held now.
> 
> Ya, unfortunately, its not that easy.  I gave it a run, and there were a 
> handful of failed hunks, _alot_ of fuzz & offsets.  thanks though.


why not applying the acpi patch only?

They have a pretty acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff.gz on www.sf.net/projects/acpi

Ciao,

-m




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