From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: Stable btrfs available for kernel 2.6.28? Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:31:16 -0500 Message-ID: <1229391076.27573.1.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> References: <4946E03A.2000505@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Peterson Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4946E03A.2000505@gentoo.org> List-ID: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 15:54 -0700, Joe Peterson wrote: > Hi all, and sorry if this has been answered... > > Starting with kernel 2.6.28, the btrfs stable kernel module, version > 0.16, does not compile. I maintain the Gentoo Linux ebuilds for btrfs, > and I would very much like to retain a working stable btrfs as well as > unstable (which is not a problem, of course). > > I have applied a variant of Yan's patch to fix calls to > __pagevec_lru_add(&pvec), but there are still numerous compile errors. > I don't feel comfortable patching myself given the critical nature of btrfs. > > So, is there either a new stable version available now (or soon), or is > there a patch I can apply to 0.16 to get it working with 2.6.28? I plan on releasing the current unstable bits as a stable release this week. You can safely cut from the unstable tree instead of v0.16. -chris