Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: fix zcache building

[Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@gentoo.org>]

On 07/25/2011 06:19 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>> From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo [mailto:cascardo@holoscopio.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:14 PM
>> To: Nitin Gupta
>> Cc: Dan Magenheimer; Greg Kroah-Hartman; devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
>> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] staging: fix zcache building
>>
>> zcache is only building tmem.c and not building zcache.c. To keep the
>> module name, zcache.c must be renamed if symbols from tmem.c are to
>> remain unexported.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo<cascardo@holoscopio.com>
>
> Greg --
>
> Since a newer version of zcache.c is already in staging-next (and
> hopefully soon in staging-for-linus for the 3.1 window), this
> patch, which simply replaces the (older) zcache.c with identical
> code with a different filename, would not apply cleanly.  Could
> you advise on the best way to ensure both the newer version
> and the file rename are applied... perhaps the rename must be
> done manually in your git tree(s)?
>
> Though I'm not certain of the process steps, please consider the
> rename, the one liner Makefile change for the rename, and the GPL
> module license addition (in patch 2/2)...
>
> Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer<dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
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Will this fix get included in the 3.0.1 -stable release? (zcache is 
'broken' (doesn't build) in Linux-3.0)

Btw, I noticed that there was another patch sent [1] to fix this issue 
earlier, but the original author is not mentioned in the first patch of 
this thread, which fixes the build failure (and the patches are almost 
identical I think).

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/22/54

Thanks,
Stratos

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Stratos Psomadakis
<psomas@gentoo.org>