Re: 2.6.27 kernels

Frantisek Hrbata wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:14:08 -0600
> Ann Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed the device API changed (again) in 2.6.27.  :-(  Are there 
>> plans to have dazuko 2.3.6 support the 2.6.27 kernels?  It looks like 
>> linux_dev_conf, dazuko_linux.c, dazuko_linux26.c and dazuko_redirfs.c 
>> will have to change.
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> here is a quick patch for dazuko + redirfs which allows dazuko to run
> on 2.6.27 kernel. The patch is made against the dazuko-2.3.6-pre2 release
> and tested with the redirfs 0.3 release. Just copy this patch to the
> dazuko-2.3.6-pre2 source dir and run "patch -p1 < dazuko_redirfs_2.6.27.patch".
>
> Some details about this patch.
>
> 1) Reflects move of the semaphore.h header.
>
> 2) Changes dazukoflt priority - irrelevant.
>
> 3) Dazuko uses open instead of permission function.
>    This has one side effect. Dazuko is not able to
>    distinguish open and exec events. Anyway exec events
>    are send as open events.
>
> 4) Reflected changes in the device_create interface and some
>    cleanup.
>
> 5) Proper class_destroy
>
> This patch definitely needs John's review but for now it may help
> to run dazuko on 2.6.27 with redirfs.
>
> -FH
>   

This patch is very helpful, much better about it than the hack I put in 
place just for compiling.  :-)  I look forward to John's review.

Thanks,

Ann