[Btrfs-devel] [PATCH 4/4] btrfs: Add unexported file_ra_state_init() when using kernels prior to 2.6.19

[Jeff Mahoney]

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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:14:51PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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>>  Kernels prior to 2.6.19 don't export file_ra_state_init(). This patch adds
>>  the file_ra_state_init() from 2.6.18.
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> Please put this somewhere else, a separate file and hopefully only in
> your backports tree.  This is kernels from stoneage after all, not just
> one or two revisions back.

I *do* keep these somewhere else. We have a package repository for that.
 In an earlier thread re: AppArmor compatibility, I said I was fine with
the distros taking responsibility here. Chris asked for the
compatibility patches. In this case, a compat.c would
probably make it easier to rip out later, though.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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