Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH reiser4 support for Linux 5.8.10 | From | Edward Shishkin <> | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:34:19 +0200 |
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On 09/24/2020 07:21 PM, David Niklas wrote: > I'm a kernel dev newbie. Please double check my work if in doubt. > > The patch for reiser4 support for Linux 5.8.1 didn't apply to 5.8.10. It > needed only a one line change, but because of all the fuzzy matching and > offset matching I thought I'd make a new one. > The file that failed to patch is fs/fs-writeback.c. A struct got one of > it's members removed. As the entire struct was removed by the patch
Hi David,
Precisely speaking, it is not removed, but moved to a header file.
Anyway, I guess that the missing member wasn't used by reiser4, so feel free to ignore it.
Thanks, Edward.
I > thought it good to ignore the missing member instead of trying to dig up > what it was used for and why it was removed. > > Thanks, > David >
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