Re: [autofs] 2.6 patches broken with 2.6.4

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Alexander Macdonald wrote:

> The patches have applied cleanly to all kernels up to now, however the second 
> patch (and maybe more, didn't try them since there wasn't any point) won't apply 
> cleanly to kernel 2.6.4.

I'll look into it this weekend.

> 
> I don't know about anybody else's experience with these patches but I haven't 
> had any trouble with them at all, maybe you should send them to Andrew Morton 
> for inclusion in the -mm branch, That'd save me some patching time for each 
> kernel ;)

Thanks for the feedback. How long and in what environment have you been 
using them.

I've done that some time ago. As far as I knon he hasn't included them 
yet.

I've been wanting to revise the wait queue locking anyway as I'm sure 
it's open to a race.

Ian

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