From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: danarag@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minix V3 support
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:06:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070108160653.865ee345.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701081807.l08I7iN03348@apps.cwi.nl>
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:07:44 +0100 (MET)
<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:
> This morning I needed to read a Minix V3 filesystem,
> but unfortunately my 2.6.19 did not support that,
> and neither did the downloaded 2.6.20rc4.
>
> Fortunately, google told me that Daniel Aragones had
> already done the work, patch found at
> http://www.terra.es/personal2/danarag/
>
> Unfortunaly, looking at the patch was painful to my eyes,
> so I polished it a bit before applying. The resulting
> kernel boots, and reads the filesystem it needed to read.
>
> (So, I do not guarantee the patch below, it is almost untested,
> writing is entirely untested, but it certainly contains fewer
> bugs than the patch found at the url above.
> The patch is relative to 2.6.20rc4.)
Looks relatively harmless ;)
Daniel, it'd be good if you could review and test these changes please.
Also, a signed-off-by from yourself and from Andries, please...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 18:07 [PATCH] Minix V3 support Andries.Brouwer
2007-01-09 0:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-01-09 1:10 ` Andries Brouwer
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