On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:33:36AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 18:17 +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:36:03PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-02 02:25]: > > > > > the standard kernel, please don't butcher it just because you feel > > > > > like it. > > > > > > > > There's nothing stopping us from removing Herbert's incomplete DM > > > > patch and applying the proper DM patch. Whoever's handling i386 > > > > 2.4, I'd highly recommend doing that. > > > > That would be me. > > > > > What do others think of this? hch? > > > > > The only reason for the castrated DM patch that's currently in debian's > 2.4 is because Herbert didn't want to maintain stuff that wasn't in 2.6. > However, the full DM patch is now in 2.6 (it made it into 2.6.8-rc1, > iirc). > > > > I talked to Alasdair G Kergon a few weeks ago and he mentioned the > > > snapshot support is in 2.6 now and a 2.4 backport available outside. > > > > 2.6 snapshotting is actually a forward port; the 2.4 DM patch has had it > for years. > > > > Can someone point me towards what patch I should be looking at? > > > > apt-get install kernel-patch-device-mapper > The 2.4.26 patch is at /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/device- > mapper/linux-2.4.26-devmapper-ioctl.patch.gz > If it doesn't apply to 2.4.27, pester [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a new > upstream patch.
Thanks. Are there any objections to applying this to kernel-source-2.4.26 ? -- Horms
