[linux-cifs-client] Re: Cifs module for 2.4

[Steven French]

The version of cifs in the linux-converged-for-old-kernels branch in samba 
svn at least builds on 2.4.33 but I am having trouble installing a 2.4 
kernel (all of my systems are 2.6)

There are probably a few things missing from the backport - but it is 
pretty close, and it is current cifs (version 1.45).


Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com

"Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub" <Yehuda.Sadeh at expand.com> wrote on 08/22/2006 
03:16:19 PM:

> > Your suggested port for cifsfs.c was large enough that it got me
> thinking
> > it would be easier to fork a cifsfs-24.c rather than adding that many
> > ifdefs (the diff -Nau was about eight pages IIRC).
> 
> Yeah. But on the other hand, it might be annoying and error prone to
> merge future fixes to both files.
> 
> > I am also debating whether it is better to just wrap mempool alloc to
> slab
> > alloc rather than including the mempool code.  I am still looking way
> to
> > shrink the diff for the other four files, but it is not easy to see
> > anything much better.
> I wasn't sure about it when I've made my port. It really looked that
> slab allocator is sufficient, but I chose to include the mempool code
> just in case. Mempools guarantees the success of the allocation without
> blocking. I'm not sure whether we're under a don't-block constraint
> here.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yehuda