Bug#262870: device-mapper patch screwed up; prevents application of evms patches
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:33:36AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 18:17 +0900, Horms wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:36:03PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > * Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net> [2004-08-02 02:25]:
> > > > > the standard kernel, please don't butcher it just because you feel
> > > > > like it.
> > > >
> > > > There's nothing stopping us from removing Herbert's incomplete DM
> > > > patch and applying the proper DM patch. Whoever's handling i386
> > > > 2.4, I'd highly recommend doing that.
> >
> > That would be me.
> >
> > > What do others think of this? hch?
> > >
>
> The only reason for the castrated DM patch that's currently in debian's
> 2.4 is because Herbert didn't want to maintain stuff that wasn't in 2.6.
> However, the full DM patch is now in 2.6 (it made it into 2.6.8-rc1,
> iirc).
>
> > > I talked to Alasdair G Kergon a few weeks ago and he mentioned the
> > > snapshot support is in 2.6 now and a 2.4 backport available outside.
> >
>
> 2.6 snapshotting is actually a forward port; the 2.4 DM patch has had it
> for years.
>
>
> > Can someone point me towards what patch I should be looking at?
> >
>
> apt-get install kernel-patch-device-mapper
> The 2.4.26 patch is at /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/device-
> mapper/linux-2.4.26-devmapper-ioctl.patch.gz
> If it doesn't apply to 2.4.27, pester patrick@debian.org for a new
> upstream patch.
Thanks.
Are there any objections to applying this to kernel-source-2.4.26 ?
--
Horms
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