2.6.39 Kernel Changes for FileSystem, get_sb removed

[apawar.linux@gmail.com (Abhijit Pawar)]

On 09/20/2011 05:50 PM, rohan puri wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Abhijit Pawar <apawar.linux@gmail.com 
> <mailto:apawar.linux@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi list,
>     It seems that the support for get_sb function is removed from
>     kernel 2.6.39 onwards. My code which is working till 2.6.38 series
>     is failing with new kernels.
>
>     I tried finding out but there isnt anything mentioned. So if this
>     function itself is removed then how kernel is going to find out
>     the superblock and use it?
>
>     Are we supposed to use the mount function provided? This is what i
>     got from one of the kernel patch email.
>
>     +[mandatory]
>     +	->get_sb() is gone.  Switch to use of ->mount().  Typically it's just
>     +a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the
>     +function type.  If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting ->mnt_root
>     +to some pointer to returning that pointer.  On errors return ERR_PTR(...).
>     diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
>
>
>     It looks like there are other changes related to Pages are also done.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Abhijit Pawar
>
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> Hi Abhijit,
>
> Yes you have to make use of mount function pointer in the struct 
> file_system_type.
>
> NOTE : - change is only in one parameter of type struct vfsmount which 
> is basically removed from this function pointer.
>
> Regards,
> Rohan Puri
>
Thanks Rohan. Yes, i have made the changes and things are looking good. 
struct address_space_operation's sync_page is also removed.

Regards,
Abhijit Pawar
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