Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:58:35 +0100 | From | DevilKin <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.14 loopback blk dev compilation trouble |
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At 08:47 21/11/2001 -0600, Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena wrote: >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.)
That's the correct way to correct the compilation problem. It has been reported 22987432 times already...
DK
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