[Unionfs] Unionfs Patch Problem

[Fernando A. P. Gomes]

Hi,

Andrew, I glade to read that my diff works well.

Erez, if you want I can provide you the tarball that I use (RHEL5 2.6.18.8 
kernel), but only tomorrow :)

Regards,
Fernando Gomes

On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message 
<AC33E917323B7F429C94A5B919B4CD18067C9CDC at emss04m05.us.lmco.com>, "Ngo, 
Andrew" writes:
> > Hi, Erez,
> >
> > Thanks for your advice, I turn off the CONFIG_UNION_FS_XATTR and the
> > compile error "implicit declaration of function
> > 'vfs_listxattr'" goes away.  Thank you so much.  The compilation was on
> > kernel directory patched with unionfs-2.3.3_for_2.6.18.8.centos5.diff.gz
> > (file size 241K) sent by Fernando Gomes.
> >
> > I also want to feed back to you on the patch file you just created
> > unionfs-2.3.3_for_2.6.18-RHEL5.diff.gz (file size 88K).  The patch
> > command on this diff file generated some errors (See patch.out).  I
> > don't know if the patch failures are caused by the minor revision
> > difference on the RHEL5 (My RHEL5 has kernel version of 2.6.18-8, the
> > kernel tarball that Konard provided to you has version of 2.6.18-53 -
> > RHEL5.1 kernel), or the patch failures are caused by other things.
> >
> > Anyway, for the time being, I will patch with
> > unionfs-2.3.3_for_2.6.18.8.centos5.diff.gz, compile with
> > CONFIG_UNION_FS_XATTR turned off, and will  be moving to the testing
> > phase of unionfs soon.  If you happen to create another version of
> > unionfs-2.3.3_for_2.6.18-RHEL5.diff.gz, I will be glad to test it for
> > you.
> >
> > Once again, thanks to everyone that helped with this patching problem.
> >
> > Andy Ngo
>
> You got 2 patch segment failures, and several ones which had to be offset.
> The latter are nothing to worry about.  The two failures are important,
> however.  The reason for these changes is that the kernel you have applied
> my patch against isn't the same as what Konrad gave me.
>
> If you give me a different tarball for a different centos/rhel kernel, I'll
> be happy to produce a clean patch for that one as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Erez.