Hi, Please add the following patch to the Fedora kernel (F-7, FC-6 & devel). This was originally in the FC-6 kernel but seems to have vanished. This patch isn''t going to get sent upstream for various reasons but we need it in Fedora so that the GFS kernel stuff will build against the GFS2 lock modules. Steve. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- linux-2.6.17.noarch/fs/gfs2/locking.c~ 2006-08-10 13:33:09.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.17.noarch/fs/gfs2/locking.c 2006-08-10 13:33:23.000000000 -0400 @@ -188,4 +188,6 @@ void __init gfs2_init_lmh(void) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gfs2_register_lockproto); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gfs2_unregister_lockproto); - +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gfs2_withdraw_lockproto); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gfs2_mount_lockproto); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gfs2_unmount_lockproto);
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:21:17 +0100 Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> wrote:> Hi, > > Please add the following patch to the Fedora kernel (F-7, FC-6 & > devel). This was originally in the FC-6 kernel but seems to have > vanished. This patch isn''t going to get sent upstream for various > reasons but we need it in Fedora so that the GFS kernel stuff will > build against the GFS2 lock modules.What were the reasons upstream didn''t like it? josh
Hi, On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 07:43 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:21:17 +0100 > Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Please add the following patch to the Fedora kernel (F-7, FC-6 & > > devel). This was originally in the FC-6 kernel but seems to have > > vanished. This patch isn''t going to get sent upstream for various > > reasons but we need it in Fedora so that the GFS kernel stuff will > > build against the GFS2 lock modules. > > What were the reasons upstream didn''t like it? > > joshWe didn''t send it to them. I don''t want to export this generally because eventually we intend to get rid of the lock module interface and use the dlm interface as "the" way to interface lock managers to GFS2. As a result I''d rather not give the impression to the upstream people that this interface is available for general use. In the mean time however, we are maintaining the older GFS kernel package which does make use of it. There is no intention of submitting the original GFS upstream, and thus there will never be any upstream users of these exports. The patch was in FC-6 originally anyway and got dropped at some stage, Steve.