Bug#597639: please allow reiser4 to be built with module-assistant

[Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>]

ok, thanks for looking.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:
> reassign 597639 wnpp
> retitle 597639 RFP: reiser4-modules as out-of-tree building package
> thanks
>
>> I'd like to be able to build the reiser4 filesystem as a module with
>> module-assistant.
>
> I have no interest in maintaining reiser4 drivers. There is already a
> patch package but patches are less interesting than an OOT build
> package but it seems to be heavily outdated.
>
> If someone wants to package it this way (provided it works with reiser4
> whatsoever), please go ahead. Packaging rules are there in
> kernel-package and m-a documentation.
>
> I had a quick look at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/edward/reiser4/reiser4-for-2.6/reiser4-for-2.6.35.patch.bz2
> and unfortunatelly it won't AFAICS work as-is because it modifies a
> little bit of other kernel sources in order to get access to some
> internal functions.
>
> Regards,
> Eduard.
>
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