On 08/16/2010 06:34 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
Larry,
On Sunday 15 August 2010, Larry Finger wrote:
In kernel 2.6.36, the BKL (big kernel lock) is removed for file ioctl
operations. This change affects vboxnetadp. To fix it, the following patch,
which is issued under the GPL V2, is needed:
thanks for the hint but your patch is not correct as it just
disables the ioctl. We will provide a proper patch soon.
There is another bit of breakage coming from include/linux/fs.h because the
super_operations structure has changed. 'clear_inode' has been replaced by
'evict_inode':
commit 5f248c9c251c60af3403902b26e08de43964ea0b
Author: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Aug 10 11:26:52 2010 -0700
Merge branch 'for-linus' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
BTW, what is the significance of the leading dot in the variable name
.clear_inode?
I don't recall seeing that before (vfsmod.c:400).
Many thanks.
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