Re: Loopback device support, kernel 2.4.14, can not compile ?

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 04:36:09 EST

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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, erasmo perez wrote:

> hello

Hi Erasmo,

>...
> drivers/block/block.o: In function `lo_send':
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x894f): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x8999): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>...

This is a known bug.

The following patch fixes it:

--- linux-2.4.14-broken/drivers/block/loop.c Thu Oct 25 13:58:34 2001
+++ linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Nov 5 17:06:08 2001
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@
                 index++;
                 pos += size;
                 UnlockPage(page);
- deactivate_page(page);
                 page_cache_release(page);
         }
         return 0;
@@ -218,7 +217,6 @@
         kunmap(page);
unlock:
         UnlockPage(page);
- deactivate_page(page);
         page_cache_release(page);
fail:
         return -1;

> thank you very much
>
> erasmo perez

cu
Adrian

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