Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:38:31 -0500 (EST) | From | Benjamin C R LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: VFS Documentation (Was: Re: Bug in the kernel ?) |
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Peter Denison <peterd@pnd-pc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> [ A large patch - including VFS Documentation - good show! ]
I'm glad to see that people appreciate this sort of thing. The kernel is lacking documentation of large parts, so I though I should tackle something. Hopefully others will be doing the same thing! :)
... > Note that in the 2.1.xx series (you were going to extend the documentation > to cover that weren't you :-) these have now changed to: ... [changes in VFS for 2.1] > [ Rest of patch deleted ] > > Rather a lot of drivers had to be changed because of this....
Yeap, I noticed that as I glanced over some of the patches for 2.1.x. Unfortunately I haven't yet made the jump to working with the developement kernels as I have had to put my patches into use on a server (love the need for reliability).
> > Cheers, > Peter > > P.S. What was that virtual hostname stuff in the proc fs?
Ooops - i've been switching over to CVS, but it's still too difficult to keep three patch sets separate. This one fixes a very nasty bug in 2.0.x, which explain some of the crashes people (including myself) have been getting that show up as a total freeze (looping in iget), inode hash table corruption and corrupted files with fat/samba/ncpf (umsdos is useless without it).
-b
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