Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 11 Jan 2001 12:37:38 +0100 |
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>>>>> " " == Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> Hubert Mantel writes: >> is this part of 2.2.19pre7 really a good idea? Even in 2.4.0 >> the size field is still a short. >> #define NFS_MAXFHSIZE 64 >> struct nfs_fh { >> - unsigned short size; >> + unsigned int size; >> unsigned char data[NFS_MAXFHSIZE]; };
> This is an internal kernel data structure. Do you know of some > program that breaks as a result of this? > _____
Any program which mounts an NFS partition.
If you do this, then you need to provide some sort of compatibility layer for nfs_mount.h since the format for version 4 of the NFS mount structure was decided more than 2 years ago.
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