On Fri, 24 May 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The xfs-1.1-2.4.18-4RH.patch.bz2 backs out many of the changes of -ac/-rh
> vs mainline in the files changed by XFS (kmem_shrink_nr, sync_one fix,
> dynamic files init).
>
> Also mark_page_accessed is introduced where touch_page should be used,
> this might cause bad VM balancing.
Hm, that's not so good. I just took a cursory glance at it, missed this.
Time for a better look I guess.
> Cosmetic notes: Red Hat never bzip's patches (it's poinless as the RPM
> itself is compressed), also patches are always named linux-<version>-*.patch,
> in addition splitting kdb out of the XFS patch looks cleaner.
Eh, cosmetics. :)
> BTW: the changelog mentions openssl stuff, this is a) not in the RPM and b)
> has a license incompatible with GPL.
Yep, ajay's original SRPM had the openssl patch, I took it out. Missed
it in the changelog.
Thanks,
-Eric
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