[Unionfs] Problem on 2.6.23.11 build

Erez Zadok ezk at cs.sunysb.edu
Sat Dec 15 13:31:06 EST 2007


In message <476407AB.5070207 at scalableinformatics.com>, Joe Landman writes:
> Hi all:
> 
>    Building a 2.6.23.11 kernel, and I grabbed the patches for 2.6.23.9 
> (http://download.filesystems.org/unionfs/unionfs-2.1/unionfs-2.1.11_for_2.6.23.9.diff.gz) 
> .  They applied cleanly.
> 
>    During the build I saw this:
> 
> fs/unionfs/mmap.c: In function ‘unionfs_writepage’:
> fs/unionfs/mmap.c:102: error: ‘struct writeback_control’ has no member 
> named ‘fs_private’
> make[2]: *** [fs/unionfs/mmap.o] Error 1
> 
>   Any thoughts?  Should I use the next patch up (2.6.24-rc*)?
> 
> Joe

Joe, are you sure your're applying the patch against a 2.6.23 kernel source
and not a differet one (say, 2.6.22 or 2.6.24)?

my 2.6.23.11 kernel has a field named fs_private in struct
writeback_control, defined in include/linux/writeback.h

Erez.


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