Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?

[Lachlan McIlroy]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:35:46 -0600
> > Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Chris Mason wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 22:19 +0100, wk wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > > I cannot fully understand what strace -v outputs (see attachment), but 
> > > > > what i see is that 'find' stops after finding a file with d_off = 4294967295
> > > > > 4294967295  =  0xFFFFFFFF, adding any number greater that zero will be 
> > > > > greater that 32bits, so this could be the reason for the message "value 
> > > > > too large".
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I also noticed that i cannot access these files through samba if i boot 
> > > > > from 2.6.28 - really strange.
> > > > > If i reboot older kernels these are visible in samba again and fully 
> > > > > accessible.
> > > > >
> > > > > Attached the log from stracing the command which was ivoked by the 
> > > > > Makefile from v4l-dvb.
> > > > > I guess this is all i could contribute to that problem. Thats stuff for 
> > > > > xfs filesystem experts now..
> > > > Seems suspect indeed.  Could you please attach the strace for the run
> > > > that works on the older kernel?
> > > Chris got my attention on this one; you probably want this fix from hch:
> > >
> > > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2009-01/msg00158.html
> > Looks likely.  It is below, for anyone who would like to test it.
> >
> >
> > It is in linux-next.  Guys, do we plan to merge this into 2.6.29?
>
> It should be merged there, yes.  Was hoping that sgi would request that
> soon....
I was going to do it yesterday after merging in another patch series but
there was problem with one of the patches.  I'll get a pull request out
real soon.

> > (cc's stable@xxxxxxxxxx)
> >
> > This patch applies OK to 2.6.27 and 2.6.28.  Is it also needed there? 
> > If so, it should have had "Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>" in the changelog so
> > that it doesn't get lost.
>
> It is needed for .28, but should not be needed for .27 AFAIK.
>
> -Eric
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