Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:31:17PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Yeah, in the meantime, i need to release a 2.4.26 kernel as there are
> > people clamoring for it, since the 2.4.25 has some security holes whose
> > fixes where not backported, and 2.6 is not considered stable by some
> > users yet (and if you want to fight it, you are welcome to engage in a
> > flamewar with Branden, i certainly won't :).
> > 
> > The patch from 2.4.26 -benh tree apply cleanly but doesn't build
> > (probably because of two conflicting libata patches, but maybe because
> > some other bits and pieces), and altough i worked at it some, it is
> > still failing with :
> > 
> > fs/fs.o(.text+0x119cc4): dans la fonction ? syncd ?:
> > : undefined reference to `sigmask_lock'
> > fs/fs.o(.text+0x119cdc): dans la fonction ? syncd ?:
> > : undefined reference to `__recalc_sigpending'
> > fs/fs.o(.text+0x119ce0): dans la fonction ? syncd ?:
> > : undefined reference to `sigmask_unlock'
> > 
> > Could you (or someone else) have a look at the stuff ? The patch against
> > kernel-source-2.4.26 is at : 
> 
> Hmm, this looks like xfs_super.c doesn't pick up xfs_buf.h.  I'll look
> at this in more detail tomorrow.

Ok, thanks,

Friendly,

Sven Luther