On 2013-07-29, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In general, no. There are a lot of moving parts that interface with the filesystem - one does not simply drop fs/xfs from, say, kernel 3.2 into a 2.6.32 kernel. I apologize for the confusion, this was not what I was implying was possible. Let me try to be more explicit. Unfortunately, I no longer have a history of what I did, because I ultimately abandoned it, so my example will be hypothetical. The current stable kernel is 3.10.4. Let's suppose that 3.10.5 comes out tomorrow with some interesting patches to fs/xfs. Is it possible using dkms to build the 3.10.5 version of the xfs module for a running 3.10.4 kernel? And if so, is there a way for the module to report its own version? There should (in theory) be much less wizardry involved in this scenario than in the difficult scenario of porting 3.10's xfs back to 2.6, and is more along the lines of what I remember doing a short time back). (To be specific, IIRC what I did was took a proposed patch against my running kernel version, which had not yet been incorporated in the distro kernel, and tested it by replacing the distro kernel's module with one I built via DKMS. But as I mentioned, I have no docs on this, so I could be misremembering the process.) I am not intentionally trying to be difficult. :) I am genuinely just curious about the answer. If it's "no" (or perhaps, in this specific scenario, it's "use the dkms tools"), it still provides me with valuable information I did not previously have. --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
