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

Dave Kleikamp shaggy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Feb 1 15:54:06 GMT 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:49 -0600, Steve French (smfltc) wrote:
> Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> 
> >There are a few of these that aren't applicable to older kernels:
> 
> >>    [PATCH] cifs: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path
> 
> When we get to 2.6.21, for 2.6.20 kernels to build won't we need to have 
> the correct
> prototypes etc. ifdef in so it can build on either 2.6.20 or 2.6.18?

Okay.  I wasn't looking at the big picture.  You probably would want to
add whatever ifdefs are needed so the code works on both older and newer
kernels.  I'm sure that applies to the other patches I pointed out as
well.

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
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