Matthias Grobarek wrote: > Hi, > Hello. > while playing around with my Gentoo system, I decided to switch to a hardened profile, including the usage of a kernel from the Hardened Gentoo > project. This is a heavily patched kernel 2.6.28, but it doesn’t include reiser4 support, so I needed to create a custom one from it to include > the reiser4 2.6.28 patchset. When I tried to compile this kernel, I got an error in one of the reiser4 files... and of course I forgot to note > the error down, something about using implicit declaration of a function. Luckily, I could see a simple solution in the other filesystem drivers > in the kernel, so I changed the erroneous reiser4 file accordingly and voilà, the kernel compiled. > > I’m not familar with creating patches and such, so I just give you the diff output. The file it’s referring to is: > fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file_conversion.c > > 689c689 > < page = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index); > --- > >> page = grab_cache_page(mapping, index); >> > > Here is the correct patch: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-symlink-write_begin-allocation-context-fix-reiser4-fix.patch Thanks, Edward. > I still haven’t tested the kernel, but the fact that it compiles is enough for me to believe it will work (just as reiser4 has been working for > me flawlessly). Furthermore, I have absolutely no clue about kernel driver development, so I’m not sure what implications this change has. > > Regards, > > > Matthias Grobarek > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
