Kernel 2.4.14 loop device

[Martin Sanborn <marty@delirium.cqe.nwu.edu>]

On Thursday 08 November 2001 04:12 pm, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote:
> that's funny that you talk about the loop device: I wanted to have it
> (simply because I often use it), but the kernel compilation crashed on an
> error about this function deactivate_page. After having deleted the two
> calls to this function, as you told me, I could successfully compile the
> 2.4.14 kernel with loop device support.

There's a patch for 2.4.14 for the loopback device. Linux Weekly News has 
some info. See http://lwn.net/2001/1108/kernel.php3. 

Marty Sanborn

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