Re: How do I apply the CVS xfs patch?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

The CVS patch will patch a linux/ tree, and create a cmd/ tree, so do
something like this:

$ mkdir cvs
$ cd cvs
$ tar xvzf linux-2.4.17.gz
$ ls
linux/
$ patch -p0 < /path/to/linux-xfs-cvs.patch
$ ls
linux/ cmd/


On 15 Feb 2002, Francis Yom wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to apply the CVS patch to 2.4.17.  Specifically
>  ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/linux-2.4
>
>  But when I unpack and look at it, it contains all kinds of stuff that
> is not -i386 related.  So patch -p1 < <patchfile> has all kinds of
> failures.
>
> So how do I apply this for the -i386 2.4.17 tree?
>
> Thanks!
> Francis
>
>
>
>
> > Date:  Wed Jan 30 12:55:07 PST 2002
> > Workarea:  jen.americas.sgi.com:/src/lord/xfs-linux.2.4
> >
> > The following file(s) were checked into:
> > bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.4.x-xfs
> >
> >
> > Modid:  2.4.x-xfs:slinx:110651a
> > linux/fs/buffer.c - 1.100
> > - Fix up return values used in xfs writepage call, plus a couple
> > of other tweaks.
> >
> > linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_iops.c - 1.120
> > - Fix up return values used in xfs writepage
> >
> > linux/fs/xfs/pagebuf/page_buf_io.c - 1.5
> > - No longer return a count of pages written in the write full page
> > path,
> > and ensure that we write out pages passed into writepage from the
> > mmap path. There is a patch against 2.4.17 which was made on Feb 10th:
>
>  ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/linux-2.4
>
>
> .17-xfs-2002-02-10.cvs-patch.bz2 Steve -- Steve
> Lord                                      voice: +1-651-683-3511
> Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software
>
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