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).
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> 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.
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