Re: PROBLEM: compiling 2.4.14 fails in block.o (probably loopback)

[Chris Wright]

* Per-Olof Pettersson ([e-mail]) wrote:
> [1.]
> compiling 2.4.14 fails in block.o (probably loopback)

this is a known problem (it's helpful to search the archives ;-).
to fix, apply the following patch:

cheers,
-chris

--- linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c	Thu Oct 25 13:58:34 2001
+++ linux-2.4.14-loop/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;