Hi!
> The following (attached) patch to the network block device driver (nbd)
> is now specific to just 2.5.72 with various other changes as suggested
> by Pavel and Steven. Please let me know what you think. There's
> definately room for more improvements but I don't believe the existing
> 2.5 series nbd driver (at least up through 2.5.72) works at all. Has
> anyone tested nbd as distributed with 2.5? I've been too busy writing
> this new nbd driver to even have checked the original driver (but some
> of the bugs I've encountered make me believe the original won't work at
> all). Here's a URL to follow to see just the two resultant files (and/or
> the patch in case it doesn't come through as an attachment):
> <http://www.aros.net/~ldl/linux/kernel/2.5.72/>.
>
> Thanks!
>
> PS: Please email me or CC me if you have any feedback for me.
> diff -urN linux-2.5.72/drivers/block/nbd.c linux-2.5.72-new/drivers/block/nbd.c
> --- linux-2.5.72/drivers/block/nbd.c 2003-06-16 22:19:44.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.5.72-new/drivers/block/nbd.c 2003-06-20 21:27:44.650037153 -0600
> @@ -24,10 +25,35 @@
> * 01-3-11 Make nbd work with new Linux block layer code. It now supports
> * plugging like all the other block devices. Also added in MSG_MORE to
> * reduce number of partial TCP segments sent. <steve@chygwyn.com>
> - * 01-12-6 Fix deadlock condition by making queue locks independent of
> + * 01-12-6 Fix deadlock condition by making queue locks independant
of
This actually *introduces* typo.
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <asm/types.h>
> +#include <asm/system.h> /* for __xchg()... */
> +#define atomic_exchange(x,ptr,size) __xchg((x),(ptr),(size))
>
atomic_exchange seems to be defined but never used?
Pavel
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