Re: struct page vs page_link

[Mark Tuttle]

Thanks for that information, I analysed your code to get a better
understanding of exactly what was going on and was able to
successfully patch what I needed to.

http://www.tuttleresearch.com/80211patch.html

Much appreciated,
Mark Tuttle

On 2/9/08, Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 01:28 -0500, Mark Tuttle wrote:
> > Regarding:
> > commit 18dabf473e15850c0dbc8ff13ac1e2806d542c15
> >
> > This actually breaks the 802.11 subsystem (http://80211.sf.net) which
> > relies on the page struct. (ieee80211_crypt_wep.c, line 190) Can
> > anyone suggest an alternative kernel function or method? As of 2.6.24,
> > the 802.11 subsystem cannot compile.
> >
>
> Greetings Mark,
>
> I have been updating the LIO-Target codebase to 2.6.24 recently, and
> posted some information about what I ended up doing for struct
> scatterlist->page changing to scatterlist->page_link and
> include/linux/scatterlist.h
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/4/111
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --nab
>
>
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