[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:24 -0600:
> On Feb 16, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
>
>> If anyone is excited about tracking the latest kernels,
>
> Oh, so very.
>
>> pvfs kmod
>> breaks on 2.6.25-rc1 and later due to this commit. It's a bit too
>> deep for me to handle.
>
> More config checks and #ifdefs. We basically can call our read_inode
> directly (which does a getattr to fill in the inode) if its no longer part
> of the super_operations struct. We were doing this before, but through the
> actual s_ops->read_inode pointer. Can you try the attached patch? It
> compiles against the latest tree, but I don't have a machine that I can run
> that kernel on at the moment.
>
> Also, I didn't include configure in this patch so you'll have to ./prepare.
>
> The #ifdefs around the iget4, iget5_locked, etc. code are especially nasty.
> iget5_locked has been defined in all versions of the 2.6 kernel, so it
> would be really nice to just whack those #ifdefs if we were to decide not
> to support 2.4 kernels in future releases.
Looks so trivial in retrospect, thanks for figuring that out.
I had a bit of fuzz that casued problems with your non-"diff -u"
patch, but it applied fine to CVS head.
It works brilliantly on 2.6.25-rc1. Let me know if you want me
to do the checkin labor.
-- Pete
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