Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:47:52 -0600 | From | Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena <> | Subject | 2.4.14 loopback blk dev compilation trouble |
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Greetings. I've seen that the compilation of off-the-server 2.4.14 tree fails at the end of 'make bzImage' because drivers/block/loop.c uses the deactivate_page() function, which seems to have been removed from the source tree. By following the progress of the kernel through 2.4.12, 2.4.13, and 2.4.14 patches, I've seen that page_cache_release() does the same things as deactivate_page(). Both these functions are used in the together twice in drivers/block/loop.c. I compiled the 2.4.14 kernel by commenting out the references to deactivate_page() but leaving page_cache_release(), and loopback block devs work; but I do not have the resources to check it for memory leaks etc. I _think_ I've done the right thing, but would appreciate verification by a regular kernel- hacker :-) I searched the net for some reference to this problem, but couldn't find anything so far.
(I've compiled loop blk-dev support in to the kernel.)
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