Re: [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again

[Nicholas Wourms]

Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms writes:
>  > Nikita Danilov wrote:
>  > > Nicholas Wourms writes:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > A quick grep shows that Intermezzo FS still uses kdevname if 
>  > >  > you've turned on debugging (fs/intermezzo/sysctl.c).  As for 
>  > >  > pending stuff, both Reiser4 & pktcdvd also use it.  So I 
>  > > 
>  > > reiser4 switched to bdevname().
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > When will the reiser4 bk repo be updated to reflect this? 
>  > It has been pretty quiet for the last few days or so, 
>  > compared to the daily updating it used to get.  As of 
> 
> It is currently undergoing some changing that rendered it unstable. I
> hope in few days a lot of commits will be made.
> 
>  > yesterday, trying to compile reiser4 as a module yeilded the 
>  > undefined reference to kdevname in a few places, not to 
>  > mention a few other undefined references as well...
> 
> We are not paying attention to the compilability as module yet.  
> Apropos, thank you for trying reiser4.
> 

No problem.  I can send you a patch against the 
reiser4-linux-2.5 tree which contains the relevant exports 
needed to compile reiser4 as a module.  Though, I haven't 
actually been able to test reiser as a module since the 
recent 2.5 is causing some major headaches in other areas :-).

Cheers,
Nicholas