Just in case it may help somebody..
This patch  is necessary for normal 1.3 and 1.3.1 XFS filesystem  operations on  mips targets (LE especially) with  old (2.4) kernels.
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Pavel

Ralf Baechle wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:24:47PM +0400, Pavel Kiryukhin wrote:

  
Sorry,
does this make sense for 2.4.x kernels?
    

Once uppon a time it made ...

The file has been rewritten completly since then.

Thanks anyway,

  Ralf