From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8R1sNqo001820 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:54:25 -0700 Message-ID: <46FB0D4E.4070704@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:54:22 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: PARTIAL TAKE 971050 - Remove linux-2.4 build support References: <20070926082614.D92CE300F406@linuxbuild.melbourne.sgi.com> <46FA4FA5.5040405@sandeen.net> <20070926122854.GA17050@infradead.org> <46FAFE71.9070000@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <46FAFE71.9070000@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Donald Douwsma Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs@oss.sgi.com Donald Douwsma wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:25:09AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> >>> So, what's to be done about xfs_refcache.c... right now it's 2.4-only, >>> but i'm not convinced that there is similar generic nfs functionality in >>> 2.6, anyone know for sure? >>> >> We keep the inodes around through nfsd, yes. There's a slight problem >> with ->release beeing called to early, but Greg is working on fixing >> that using an open files cache in nfsd. >> > > Cool I'll keep that in mind, > > I'm going to remove support/Makefile which is 2.4 specific as well. > Are there any other 2.4 isms you guys know of? > > Don > > > It may be worth diffing the linux-2.4/* and linux-2.6/* to see if there are any no-ops in 2.6 there only for 2.4... I believe there are. linux-2.6/mutex.h could probably go away... hm, there are quite a few 2 or 3 line headers in there, dunno if it makes sense to have them split out... maybe. you could lose HAVE_SPLICE and HAVE_FOP_OPEN_EXEC I think Hmm I wonder if custom do_div is still needed. -Eric