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From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] compile problem with uml-patch-2.4.22-4
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:05:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063605919.1070.21.camel@ws14.commsecure.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309150545.h8F5jJWw022233@hongkong.cs.nmsu.edu>

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:45, Ross Combs wrote:
> The latest 2.4 UML patch added support for an "Anonymous memory device".
> I have no idea what this is normally used for so I deselected it in the
> configuration.  However that leads to a compile error in mem.c which I
> hacked around by adding #if defined(CONFIG_DEV_ANON) .. #endif around
> the last line of the array initializer:
>    {10, "anon", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,             &anon_fops}
> 
> I'm not using devfs, so I'm not sure why that function is needed at all.
> 
> Anyway, it seems like a small oversight and I haven't noticed any ill
> effect from the change.

Jeff mentioned this in an earlier mail to this list. It is left over
cruft from an experiment. Just leave it turned on for now. :-)

Cheers,
Malcolm



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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-15  5:45 [uml-devel] compile problem with uml-patch-2.4.22-4 Ross Combs
2003-09-15  6:05 ` Malcolm Tredinnick [this message]
2003-09-16 21:20 ` [uml-devel] " Patrick "Petschge" Kilian
2003-09-18  0:23   ` Jeff Dike
2003-09-18 16:36     ` Patrick "Petschge" Kilian

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