[vbox-dev] Keeping up with Linus?

Frank Mehnert Frank.Mehnert at Sun.COM
Mon May 5 08:07:53 GMT 2008


On Monday 05 May 2008, walt wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
> > Larry Finger wrote:
> >> w41ter at gmail.com wrote:
> >>> The code in question is:
> >>> static struct vm_operations_struct sf_vma_ops = {
> >>> .nopage = sf_reg_nopage
> >>> };
> >>>
> >>> I can find the problem but I don't know enough to fix it :-/
> >>> Does this look hard to fix, or not so much?
> >>
> >> That one is harder as it changes how one calculates the offset. If I
> >> get bored, I'll try to figure it out.
> >
> > I guess I got bored, but the following patch compiles, the module loads,
> > _AND_ survived minimal testing.
>
> Works for me too, thanks!  (Those same tests are used in Redmond :o)

Thank you guys! A few days before the 1.6.0 release I tried to get some
pre-1.6.26 code but there was still no .gz version available on kernel.org
and I somehow did not find the right git repository.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/
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