[linux-cifs-client] patches that are not merged yet into "cifs for older kernels" tree

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:16 -0600, Steve French wrote:
> List of unmerged patches - which would need to be accounted for/merged
> by hand in some cases to get the "cifs for older kernels" tree to
> be completely current (and build on 2.6.18 or 2.6.19 e.g.)

There are a few of these that aren't applicable to older kernels:

> commit e6a002964cf376c2acb1d67c4741044dcd3b1622
> Author: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek at cs.sunysb.edu>
> Date:   Fri Dec 8 02:36:48 2006 -0800
> 
>     [PATCH] cifs: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path
> 
>     Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in
> the cifs
>     filesystem.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek at cs.sunysb.edu>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>

> commit 7dfb71030f7636a0d65200158113c37764552f93
> Author: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham at linuxmail.org>
> Date:   Wed Dec 6 20:34:23 2006 -0800
> 
>     [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from
> sched.h
> 
>     Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to
> freezer.h, so
>     that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't
> require
>     recompiling just about everything.
> 
>     [akpm at osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
>     Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel at suspend2.net>
>     Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at sisk.pl>
>     Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>

> commit 12e36b2f41b6cbc67386fcb9c59c32a3e2033905
> Merge: 1baaf0b... 1a4e15a...
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at g5.osdl.org>
> Date:   Fri Oct 13 08:09:29 2006 -0700
> 
>     Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6


> commit 96b644bdec977b97a45133e5b4466ba47a7a5e65
> Author: Serge E. Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 2 02:18:13 2006 -0700
> 
>     [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: use init_utsname when appropriate
> 
>     In some places, particularly drivers and __init code, the init utsns
> is the
>     appropriate one to use.  This patch replaces those with a the
> init_utsname
>     helper.
> 
>     Changes: Removed several uses of init_utsname().  Hope I picked all
> the
>     	right ones in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c.  These are now changed to
>     	utsname() (the per-process namespace utsname) in the previous
>     	patch (2/7)
> 
>     [akpm at osdl.org: CIFS fix]
>     Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
>     Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev at openvz.org>
>     Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
>     Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert at 13thfloor.at>
>     Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw at sw.ru>
>     Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>
> 
> commit e9ff3990f08e9a0c2839cc22808b01732ea5b3e4
> Author: Serge E. Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 2 02:18:11 2006 -0700
> 
>     [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: switch to using uts namespaces
> 
>     Replace references to system_utsname to the per-process uts
> namespace
>     where appropriate.  This includes things like uname.
> 
>     Changes: Per Eric Biederman's comments, use the per-process uts
> namespace
>     	for ELF_PLATFORM, sunrpc, and parts of net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
> 
>     [jdike at addtoit.com: UML fix]
>     [clg at fr.ibm.com: cleanup]
>     [akpm at osdl.org: build fix]
>     Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
>     Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev at openvz.org>
>     Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
>     Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert at 13thfloor.at>
>     Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw at sw.ru>
>     Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com>
>     Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike at addtoit.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>

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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center