Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:14:44 -0400 | From | David Niklas <> | Subject | Re: PATCH reiser4 support for Linux 5.8.10 |
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:34:19 +0200 edward.shishkin@gmail.com wrote: > On 09/24/2020 07:21 PM, David Niklas wrote: > > I'm a kernel dev newbie. Please double check my work if in doubt. > > > > The patch for reiser4 support for Linux 5.8.1 didn't apply to 5.8.10. > > It needed only a one line change, but because of all the fuzzy > > matching and offset matching I thought I'd make a new one. > > The file that failed to patch is fs/fs-writeback.c. A struct got one > > of it's members removed. As the entire struct was removed by the patch > > Hi David, > > Precisely speaking, it is not removed, but moved to a header file. > > Anyway, I guess that the missing member wasn't used by reiser4, so feel > free to ignore it. > > Thanks, > Edward. > > > I > > thought it good to ignore the missing member instead of trying to dig > > up what it was used for and why it was removed. > > > > Thanks, > > David > > >
Duh! I wanted to send you guys the patch so you could place it on sourceforge. Here it is.
Thanks for clarifying, David [unhandled content-type:application/gzip] | |