From: David Niklas <Hgntkwis@vfemail.net>
To: edward.shishkin@gmail.com
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH reiser4 support for Linux 5.8.10
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:14:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200924151444.28c40949@Phenom-II-x6.niklas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c0f0263-1da0-11e9-c7b0-98a0aad9a888@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:34:19 +0200
edward.shishkin@gmail.com wrote:
> On 09/24/2020 07:21 PM, David Niklas wrote:
> > I'm a kernel dev newbie. Please double check my work if in doubt.
> >
> > The patch for reiser4 support for Linux 5.8.1 didn't apply to 5.8.10.
> > It needed only a one line change, but because of all the fuzzy
> > matching and offset matching I thought I'd make a new one.
> > The file that failed to patch is fs/fs-writeback.c. A struct got one
> > of it's members removed. As the entire struct was removed by the patch
>
> Hi David,
>
> Precisely speaking, it is not removed, but moved to a header file.
>
> Anyway, I guess that the missing member wasn't used by reiser4, so feel
> free to ignore it.
>
> Thanks,
> Edward.
>
>
> I
> > thought it good to ignore the missing member instead of trying to dig
> > up what it was used for and why it was removed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
>
Duh! I wanted to send you guys the patch so you could place it on
sourceforge.
Here it is.
Thanks for clarifying,
David
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[not found] <20200728222041.5d88b2e1@Phenom-II-x6.niklas.com>
2020-07-29 2:34 ` PROBLEM: IO lockup on reiserfs FS David Niklas
2020-08-05 16:53 ` Hgntkwis
2020-08-05 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-06 0:01 ` Hgntkwis
2020-08-06 0:37 ` Edward Shishkin
2020-08-17 14:56 ` David Niklas
2020-09-24 17:21 ` PATCH reiser4 support for Linux 5.8.10 David Niklas
2020-09-24 18:34 ` Edward Shishkin
2020-09-24 19:14 ` David Niklas [this message]
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