Re: PROBLEM: compiling 2.4.14 fails in block.o (probably loopback)

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* Per-Olof Pettersson (peope@peope.net) wrote:
> [1.]
> compiling 2.4.14 fails in block.o (probably loopback)

this is a known problem (it's helpful to search the archives ;-).
to fix, apply the following patch:

cheers,
-chris

--- linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c Thu Oct 25 13:58:34 2001
+++ linux-2.4.14-loop/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Nov 5 17:06:08 2001
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@
                 index++;
                 pos += size;
                 UnlockPage(page);
- deactivate_page(page);
                 page_cache_release(page);
         }
         return 0;
@@ -218,7 +217,6 @@
         kunmap(page);
 unlock:
         UnlockPage(page);
- deactivate_page(page);
         page_cache_release(page);
 fail:
         return -1;
-
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