On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:00:22PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:50:33PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > >I tried to rediff and send an older patch, but fs/xfs/xfs_dmapi.c in the
> > >CVS tree vanished. It's still in the SuSE kernel, though including the
> > >related hacks. What's the story here?
> > >
> >
> > http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xfs-linux/xfs_rw.h.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.78&r2=text&tr2=1.77&f=h
> > xfs_dmapi.c - 1.142 - renamed to dmapi/xfs_dm.c 1.1
> >
> > from nathan's most recent change...
>
> A thanks, must be the 1^16th location of the dmapi code in the Linux tree :)
Heh. The problem was xfs_dmapi.c calling dmapi.ko symbols directly,
which meant the dmapi module had to be loaded all the time, which was
reported as an issue from a certain distro.
> Use xfs_vtoi and xfs_vfstom in the dmapi code instead of opencoding
> behaviour lookups.
Thanks Christoph, I'll get that merged.
cheers.
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Nathan
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