Keith Antoine babbled on about: > Ah, man after my own heart, Bruce! but I will admit to having just had a > problem getting back up after installing a 2.4.12 kernel, 2.4.14 would NOT > compile without an error in the block-drivers-block. lo_scan no matter what
use the attached patch to make 2.4.14 compile -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
diff -X /home/chris/dontdiff -Naur linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c linux-2.4.14-loop/drivers/block/loop.c --- linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c Thu Oct 25 13:58:34 2001 +++ linux-2.4.14-loop/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Nov 5 17:06:08 2001 @@ -207,7 +207,6 @@ index++; pos += size; UnlockPage(page); - deactivate_page(page); page_cache_release(page); } return 0; @@ -218,7 +217,6 @@ kunmap(page); unlock: UnlockPage(page); - deactivate_page(page); page_cache_release(page); fail: return -1;
