[1104] in arla-drinkers
Re: Linux vfs_getattr patch (Was: Arla 0.25 on Linux 2.2.10 bug)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
Wed Aug 25 06:41:47 1999
From owner-arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se Wed Aug 25 10:41:47 1999
Return-Path: <owner-arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se>
Delivered-To: arla-drinkers-mtg@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Received: (qmail 2565 invoked from network); 25 Aug 1999 10:41:46 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO sundance.stacken.kth.se) (130.237.234.41)
by bloom-picayune.mit.edu with SMTP; 25 Aug 1999 10:41:46 -0000
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
by sundance.stacken.kth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10109
for arla-drinkers-list; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:33:32 +0200 (MET DST)
Received: from grey07.nada.kth.se (grey07.nada.kth.se [130.237.226.21])
by sundance.stacken.kth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10105
for <arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se>; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:33:28 +0200 (MET DST)
Received: (from d95-mah@localhost)
by grey07.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA04937;
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:33:25 +0200 (MET DST)
To: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
Cc: arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Subject: Re: Linux vfs_getattr patch (Was: Arla 0.25 on Linux 2.2.10 bug)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906290128530.433-100000@pktw16.phy.tu-dresden.de> <5l1zdgvzbb.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <19990825110223.C5681@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Language: en
Date: 25 Aug 1999 12:33:24 +0200
In-Reply-To: Dr A V Le Blanc's message of "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:02:23 +0100"
Message-ID: <ixdpv0c6tfv.fsf@grey07.nada.kth.se>
Lines: 16
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 19.34
Sender: owner-arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Precedence: bulk
> > Appended to this mail is the (small) kernel patch to Linux to add
> > `getattr' (and clean-up some stat handling). The current arla code
> > from CVS should automatically figure out if getattr is available and
> > use it.
>
> Is this patch going to be added to the Linux kernel, or should we
> continue to add it explicitly on systems which will be using arla?
We hope it will, but also, we hope that the new arla 0.27 will solve
the problem that the getattr patch solves without the need of the
getattr patch.
Getting patches into the linux kernel is not an easy task. We have
tried, but we haven't received a response yet.
/Magnus
