From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262737AbTDGO3h (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:29:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263445AbTDGO3h (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:29:37 -0400 Received: from chiba.3jane.net ([64.57.168.198]:28620 "EHLO chiba.3jane.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262737AbTDGO3f (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:29:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3E918CCE.4080804@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 10:35:58 -0400 From: Nicholas Wourms User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikita Danilov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again References: <20030331162634.A14319@lst.de> <3E908DF6.1050004@gentoo.org> <16017.11269.576246.373826@laputa.namesys.com> <3E91867A.1040504@gentoo.org> <16017.35421.17842.418130@laputa.namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nikita Danilov wrote: > Nicholas Wourms writes: > > Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > Nicholas Wourms writes: > > > > > > > > A quick grep shows that Intermezzo FS still uses kdevname if > > > > you've turned on debugging (fs/intermezzo/sysctl.c). As for > > > > pending stuff, both Reiser4 & pktcdvd also use it. So I > > > > > > reiser4 switched to bdevname(). > > > > > > > When will the reiser4 bk repo be updated to reflect this? > > It has been pretty quiet for the last few days or so, > > compared to the daily updating it used to get. As of > > It is currently undergoing some changing that rendered it unstable. I > hope in few days a lot of commits will be made. > > > yesterday, trying to compile reiser4 as a module yeilded the > > undefined reference to kdevname in a few places, not to > > mention a few other undefined references as well... > > We are not paying attention to the compilability as module yet. > Apropos, thank you for trying reiser4. > No problem. I can send you a patch against the reiser4-linux-2.5 tree which contains the relevant exports needed to compile reiser4 as a module. Though, I haven't actually been able to test reiser as a module since the recent 2.5 is causing some major headaches in other areas :-). Cheers, Nicholas