From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.17rc2
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From: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
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Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com> writes:

> Did a bunch of stuff get updated in the 2.4.17rc2 kernel? I ask because
> I just applied that patch to 2.4.16, and at one point patch stated it
> looked like a patch had already been applied. 

Yes, you probably mean the patch from patch-2.4.17

    --- linux-2.4.16/drivers/md/lvm-snap.c  Mon Nov 12 17:34:20 2001
    +++ linux/drivers/md/lvm-snap.c Fri Dec 21 16:40:32 2001
    @@ -542,8 +542,6 @@
     
     void lvm_snapshot_release(lv_t * lv)
     {
    -       int     nbhs = KIO_MAX_SECTORS;
    -
    	    if (lv->lv_block_exception)
    	    {
    		    vfree(lv->lv_block_exception);

which seems already to be in LVM-1.0.1.  This patch in uncritical
anyway since it does nothing, except cosmetic cleanup (removal of
unused variable).


urs