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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: mantel@suse.de (Hubert Mantel), Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7
Date: 11 Jan 2001 12:37:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsy9wi8gl9.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101100654.f0A6sjJ02453@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: Russell King's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:54:45 +0000 (GMT)"

>>>>> " " == Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:

     > Hubert Mantel writes:
    >> is this part of 2.2.19pre7 really a good idea? Even in 2.4.0
    >> the size field is still a short.
    >> #define NFS_MAXFHSIZE 64
    >> struct nfs_fh {
    >> - unsigned short size;
    >> + unsigned int size;
    >> unsigned char data[NFS_MAXFHSIZE]; };

     > This is an internal kernel data structure.  Do you know of some
     > program that breaks as a result of this?
     >    _____

Any program which mounts an NFS partition.

If you do this, then you need to provide some sort of compatibility
layer for nfs_mount.h since the format for version 4 of the NFS mount
structure was decided more than 2 years ago.

Cheers,
  Trond
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-10  0:37 Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 Hubert Mantel
2001-01-10  0:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10  6:54 ` Russell King
2001-01-10 15:31   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 22:09     ` Russell King
2001-01-10 23:59       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-11  7:34         ` Russell King
2001-01-11 10:33           ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-11 10:36             ` Russell King
2001-01-11 12:10           ` Manfred
2001-01-11 12:10             ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-11 12:29               ` Manfred
2001-01-11 13:27                 ` Russell King
2001-01-24  7:51         ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-24  9:02           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-24  9:51             ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-24 12:21               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-24 17:49                 ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-24 10:09             ` Thomas Pornin
2001-01-11 15:28     ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-11 16:19       ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-11 17:44         ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-11 18:22           ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-11 18:27             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-11 18:30               ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-11 18:43                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-11 20:09                   ` Russell King
2001-01-11 20:39                   ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-11 11:37   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
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2001-01-24 13:46 Jesse Pollard

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