Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:14:57 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: include/linux/efs_fs.h declares a symbol |
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> Al Viro: There is no maintainer for efs in the kernel MAINTAINERS > file. Is this filesystem orphaned?
Beats me. As far as I can see, all updates to it were 3rd-party. It's either abandoned, or never required specific patches too badly (also quite possible in this case).
It went into the tree in 2.3.2 and from there to 2.6.0-test6 I see nothing that would look like maintainer's update. OTOH, it's read-only and shouldn't be too badly broken (or hard to keep alive).
Outside of trunk (i.e. in 2.4.16--) we have a backport of global 2.5 change (sb_bread()) and check for set_blocksize() failures (from Alan). BTW, the latter patch is missing in 2.5. Its equivalent would be
--- B6/fs/efs/super.c Mon Jun 23 07:23:09 2003 +++ B6-efs/fs/efs/super.c Wed Oct 1 08:58:35 2003 @@ -218,7 +218,11 @@ memset(sb, 0, sizeof(struct efs_sb_info)); s->s_magic = EFS_SUPER_MAGIC; - sb_set_blocksize(s, EFS_BLOCKSIZE); + if (!sb_set_blocksize(s, EFS_BLOCKSIZE)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "EFS: device does not support %d byte blocks\n", + EFS_BLOCKSIZE); + goto out_no_fs_ul; + } /* read the vh (volume header) block */ bh = sb_bread(s, 0); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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