xfs and kernel-2.4.24

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:52:21 -0500
> Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>
> > In a 0.2K blaze of typing glory, M.W. Chang wrote:
> > > Is xfs merged into kernel 2.4.24?
> >
> > As Llama said, no. However, I've been able to shoehorn the XFS patches
> > into vanilla 2.4.24 sources on top of vanilla 2.4.24 sources that have
> > the preempt-patch. If you don't know much about programming, though, it
> > isn't a procedure I'd recommend.
> >
>
> Now would be an excellent time to begin your 2.6 upgrade.  XFS patches are already merged into 2.6 releases.  As you can see from my sig, all is well for me with 2.6 (6-8 months now), and even 2.6.1-mm3 has good reports.

Kurt, I'm a bit puzzled by your email.  Granted, i'm not using the preempt
patch, but the 2.4.23 XFS patch applies nearly cleanly to 2.4.24 (a very
minor change needs to be made to the extra-version field in the Makefile).

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