Re: [linux-lvm] Problem at compiling kernel 2.4.18 with lvm 1.0.7

["Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>]

Krisztian,

you said you used the SuSE 2.4.18 source ?
Get a mainline source and retry patching/compiling.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:59:34AM +0100, Krisztian Gyoerffy wrote:
> Hello Heinz,
> 
> 
> no I haven't, because till now I ever patched my kernels with any of the
> LVM versions I chose to compile the kernel by myself. And it was ok.
> This is the first time that I get a compilation error like this.
> 
> Can we fix the problem somehow, that I can compile then kernel with the
> LVM patch 1.0.7?
> 
> Because to tell the truth I don't really rely on that rpm from suse,
> since I had big troubles with an apache rpm, and finaly it turned out
> that there was a failure in it, and when I compiled apache from the
> source it was ok.
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Krisztian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On
> Behalf Of Heinz J . Mauelshagen
> Sent: Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2003 11:24
> To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem at compiling kernel 2.4.18 with lvm
> 1.0.7
> 
> 
> 
> Krisztian,
> 
> running the SuSE LVM rpm with the SuSE kernel should work fine.
> Have you tried that yet ?
> 
> Regards,
> Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:19:26PM +0100, Krisztian Gyoerffy wrote:
> > Hi LVM friends,
> > 
> > 
> > I have problems with the following scenario:
> > 
> > - I use SuSE linux 7.1 (I know, this might be a bit old, but I follow
> > the rule "never touch a running system") with kernel 2.4.16 and lvm
> > 1.0.7
> > 
> > - Since SuSE rolled out the latest kernel for 7.1 and I would like to
> > keep my OS up to date I installed the 2.4.18 kernel source from SuSE
> on
> > my machine
> > 
> > - I tried to patch the kernel with the LVM 1.0.7, so I executed
> exactly
> > the steps written in INSTALL and PATCH/README. Everything was ok
> > 
> > - Then I configured the rest of the kernel and tried to compile. But
> > after a while, when it was compiling the LVM stuff, it stopped
> compiling
> > with the following message:
> > 
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18.SuSE/include -Wall
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
> -fno-common
> > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
> > -DKBUILD_BASENAME=lvm  -c -o lvm.o lvm.c
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18.SuSE/include -Wall
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
> -fno-common
> > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
> > -DKBUILD_BASENAME=lvm_snap  -c -o lvm-snap.o lvm-snap.c
> > lvm-snap.c: In function `lvm_snapshot_COW':
> > lvm-snap.c:365: structure has no member named `blocks'
> > make[3]: *** [lvm-snap.o] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory 
> > `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18.SuSE/drivers/md'
> > make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory 
> > `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18.SuSE/drivers/md'
> > make[1]: *** [_subdir_md] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory 
> > `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18.SuSE/drivers'
> > make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> > 
> > Afterwards I looked into the patch file, and into the lvm-snap.c at
> the
> > given position, line 365. There is the reference to the "blocks"
> > variable of the iobuf structure. This iobuf structure is defined in
> the
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/iobuf.h header file. But this header file
> > is completly different in the source of the 2.4.18 kernel than in the
> > source of the 2.4.16 kernel, where the patch and compiling were ok.
> > 
> > Do you have any idea what can I do to get it compiled?
> > 
> > I attach the lvm patch file generated by make and the iobuf.h file for
> > both versions 2.4.16 and 2.4.18.
> > 
> > 
> > Hope to hear from you soon, and thanks in advance
> > 
> > 
> > Krisztian
> > 

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