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

Steve French (smfltc) smfltc at us.ibm.com
Thu Feb 1 15:43:48 GMT 2007


Dave Kleikamp wrote:

>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.
>>
>>    
>>
But doesn't that one for example have to be ifdef in so in the future 
the same fs/cifs/ files can
build on 2.6.19 and. 2.6.20?



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