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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