Interested in uClinux patches?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 10:41:47PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
> I looked around, and didn't see any previous discussion, if there has been 
> sorry for the noise.
> 
> There have been a few people who have made minor modifications to samba 
> (both mount and server) to uClinux, to support uClinux/uClibc/no-mmu 
> architectures.
> 
> Source (based on 3.0.13) exists in CVS at:
> http://cvs.uclinux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/uClinux-dist/user/samba/
> 
> Most changes are similar to :
> http://cvs.uclinux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/uClinux-dist/user/samba/source/client/smbmount.c
> 
> Where the function daemonize() has been ifdef'ed due uClinux's lack of fork.
> 
> For people unfamiliar with uClinux, there is a good paper on the topic at
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7221
> 
> We use it for a audio player - mount a Windows share where Audio file 
> exist, and play them via a web interface.
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9272421886.html
> 
> I can extract a patch, make sure it applies to cvs for 3.0.20, and send 
> here if you are interested in merging it with the svn here? Otherwise - we 
> will just continue to maintain things out of tree.

I'd definately be interested in seeing the work. Can't promise to
integrate it (depending on how invasive the changes are) but I'd
love to see them.

Jeremy.