compile difficulty, infradead ftp server not responding

compile difficulty, infradead ftp server not responding

[Dave Wilson]

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Hi,

I'm new to the list and to mtd.  I've been tasked with investigating mtd and
ntfl as a
replacement to using the M-Systems DOC binary driver module.  We are having
problems with the DOC becoming corrupted, to the point where we must boot
DOS
and run the DOC format command to recover.  To avoid having to boot DOS for
recovery we would like to be able to use ntfl_format to reformat from Linux.
We are
using SuSE kernel 2.2.5.

The infraread ftp server is not responding, so I pulled the latest CVS
source and
tried to compile.  I got lots of errors, many involving mtd_table_mutex and
DECLARE_MUTEX.  I hacked for a while, but eventually stopped because it
seems
like the code should compile a lot more easily based on what I have read in
the
mailing list archives.  Does the tarball provide compiled modules?  Should
the CVS
source compile as-is?  Will the infradead ftp server be up any time soon so
I can
find out by myself?

thanks,
Dave Wilson

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Re: compile difficulty, infradead ftp server not responding

[David Woodhouse]

The source in CVS should compile. You need a kernel newer than 2.2.5 - more 
specifically you need the linux/include/linux/compatmac.h file which was 
introduced circa 2.2.16, IIRC. Just nicking that file and dropping in to 
your 2.2.5 kernel should suffice, but you would do better to upgrade your 
kernel to something that isn't remotely killable. 

The FTP server is down because of yet another wu-ftpd exploit. I'm waiting 
for the RH erratum to be released. Daily snapshots of the CVS tree should 
be available on ftp.uk.linux.org.

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Re: compile difficulty, infradead ftp server not responding

[David Woodhouse]

dwmw2@infradead.org said:
>  The FTP server is down because of yet another wu-ftpd exploit. I'm
> waiting  for the RH erratum to be released.

I'd actually forgotten about this - upon prodding the distro team it looks 
like I got the wrong end of the stick - it could cause a _client_ crash, 
not a server crash. So ftp is re-enabled.

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