Re: fs.h patch in RH 2.4.9-31

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 07:42 1-3-2002 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm right now compiling updated RedHat errata kernel-2.4.9-31 with XFS
>support which is then kernel-2.4.9-31SGI_XFS_1.0.2. You'll find the
>packages again on oss in the a contrib dir when Eric permits.
>
>Now I have two questions:
>
>1) After downloading the original RedHat RPMS I found out that both 7.1
>and 7.2 packages are exactly the same. So I decided to do the same and I
>decided to compile on RedHat 7.2 since 7.1 and 7.2 are almost the same
>but 7.2 has some newer version of compilers and libs and I thought it's
>a good thing to compile on 7.2.
>Is it good to compile 7.1 and 7.2 on 7.2 or am I missing something?

XFree86 updates are available which means that both 7.1 and 7.2 now have 
XFree86 4.1.0
This gets rid of the different DRI versions that would otherwise be neccesary.

>2) The jumbo xfs patch linux-2.4.9-RH7.2-xfs.patch.bz2 had two rejects
>in fs.h. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer so I'm kindly asking for
>advice whether I have correctly fixed the thing. Those two lines are new
>in 2.4.9-31

I don't see anything wrong with that. Seems logical.

Cheers

--
Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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