Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:15:06 +1000 | From | Daniel Stone <> | Subject | Re: XFS and Alan kernel tree |
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:03:16AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:25:52 +1000, > Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.sfarc.net> wrote: > >On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:08:16PM +0200, Daniel Podlejski wrote: > >> I merge XFS witch Alan tree (2.4.4-ac5). It's seems to be stable. > >> Patch against Alan tree is avaliable at: > > > >Hi Daniel, > >I've got a KDB patch against a relatively recent 2.4.5-ac6, but are you > >still continuing your porting effort to the -ac series? > > kdb v1.8-2.4.5-ac6 works for -ac6 through -ac13. None of the changes > in that series affect kdb. > > There have been some significant changes to page I/O handling in > 2.4.6-pre[12] which are reflected in the XFS CVS tree. -ac13 is still > using the old page_launder() code which is not as clean. In addition > kdb for Linus's and AC's trees has diverged quite a bit because of the > console and NMI cleanup in -ac. Fitting XFS from CVS into -ac13 will > be very nasty, you might want to wait until AC syncs to Linus's kernel > or Linus takes some of the -ac changes.
Hmm, I've got Rik's page_launder patch which was posted to lkml a couple of days ago, and hand-hacked that into ac. I got the CVS tree and manually hacked out 2.4.6-pre2, but with 22 different files with rejects when I tried to put -ac in, I just gave up.
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