[Unionfs] RT kernel 2.6.23

[Paul Hewlett]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 16:40:21 Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <200711141011.20752.paul at gccs.co.za>, Paul Hewlett writes:
> > Hi Erez
> >
> > I upgraded to the RT kernel 2.6.23 from the pro-audio overlay of gentoo
> > and applied unionfs 2.1.9 cleanly. The compile failed in dentry.c and
> > super.c. In both cases a reference to the nrpages entry of the struct
> > address_space was made - this entry does not exist in the RT kernel but
> > an access function does.
> >
> > To fix dentry.c at line 271 change
>
> This is for 2.6.23 only, right?  Once your testing is complete, please send
> me a patch and I'll add it to the next release.  Actually, I think it would
> be cleaner if unionfs simply calls mapping_nrpages() unconditionally. 
> Then, in union.h, I can have a compatibility #ifdef; this way the main code
> stays cleaner w/o so many ifdefs.
Erez

Yes 2.6.23 only. 
I would imagine that using the mapping function unconditionally would be the 
correct way to go.

Paul
>
> Cheers,
> Erez.
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