Vanilla kernel patch

[Francesco Biscani <biscani@pd.astro.it>]

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Hi,

yesterday I threw together a patchset to enable reiser4 for the vanilla 
2.6.9-rc3 kernel. Basically I just downloaded the broken-out -mm2 patch and 
applied the reiser4 patches in the order described by the "patch-series" 
file. I did this because -mm has been too unstable for me and I don't need al 
the features that can be found in -cko or -klak or others patchsets.

I would like to know how many troubles I'm running into :) So far the kernel 
seems to go fine and dandy, and some fsck's did not reveal any problem. I had 
to manually edit the reiser4-reget-something patch, which failed because it 
wanted to use the write_lock function instead of the spin_lock function that 
is found in vanilla -rc3. Also, I had to apply two non-reiser4 patches. The 
first added the "i_sb_list" member to the inode structure (it was the 
inodes-speedup patch), the second enabled generic acl and got rid of the 
"undeclared function" warning gcc gave. Now all reiser4 stuff compiles with 
no warnings at all.

What are the pitfalls I'm falling in, doing this? Is this safe or is there 
stuff in -mm that is absolutely needed by reiser4?

Thanks!

-- 
Dr. Francesco Biscani

Dipartimento di Astronomia
Università di Padova

biscani@pd.astro.it

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