Re: Yet another patch question

[Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>]

On 01 Feb 2002 08:59:24 -0600, 
Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:16, David Chambers wrote:
>> While we are(were!) on the subject of patches, has anyone successfully
>> applied the XFS patch to a rmap12a patched kernel?  (or vice versa)
>
>The tricky part here is that our tree also has kdb in it, if you
>subtract out kdb then it gets a lot easier in general to apply
>xfs to other random kernels.

kdb v2.1 (in current xfs tree) should not be a problem with vm changes,
I removed the kdb dependency on the vm source code.  Module
kdb/kdbm_vm.c will be a problem for rmap, so patch kdb/modules/Makefile
to remove kdbm_vm.o and just don't build it.

>Although when it comes to vm changes
>we have code in buffer.c and vmscan.c which it is essential to
>get right.

/me runs away ;)