On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 16:50, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:52:30PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote: > > I'd be happy to help you out. I'm looking to test both -aa and rmap. > > > > what is your current procedure for merging this? > > Right now I just applied both patches and I am looking at the .rej > files. > > Currently, here are the issues I'm seeing -- I'm using the 2.4.17 > snapshot > from ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.17/. > > issue 1 - fs/buffer.c: > Looks like some rip-n-replace codework there. Should be simple enought. I'd doublecheck this with a vanilla patched kernel just to be sure, but it looks fairly straight forward. > > issue 2 - vmscan.c - see http://flounder.net/vmscan.c.rej for the .rej > file. I'll take a peek and see what's up. Chances are, there's a lot of rip-n-replace here since there's an enourmous chance that a lot of the vmscan.c code is re-worked. When integrating -aa's patch into XFS, I had a 20K .rej, most of which was code that was just located elsewhere. Took a while to find, but I had a lot of replacementcode. > > -- > Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> | GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA > http://flounder.net/publickey.html | 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-698-7250 email: austin@coremetrics.com "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." Latin Proverb
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