Bug 172536 - Fails to compile with reiserfs enabled
Summary: Fails to compile with reiserfs enabled
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-06 15:29 UTC by Johnny Hughes
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-12-06 16:43:13 UTC
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reiserfs patch (1.06 KB, patch)
2005-11-06 15:31 UTC, Johnny Hughes
no flags Details | Diff

Description Johnny Hughes 2005-11-06 15:29:31 UTC
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Description of problem:
RedHat patched the reiserfs source to change 'struct key' 
to 'struct reiserfs_key' (Patch2503) - I guess to prevent name conflicts 
with the 'Key management patches' (from the spec file).

However, it looks like they missed a couple ... not surprising as they 
don't support reiserfs, so they don't hit this problem.

The attached patch seems to allow it to compile.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.src.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
enable reisferfs and try to compile
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Johnny Hughes 2005-11-06 15:31:21 UTC
Created attachment 120774 [details]
reiserfs patch

This allows the kernel to compile if reiserfs is selected

Comment 2 Jason Baron 2005-11-07 18:55:48 UTC
So you are using reiserfs under rhel4? As you know we don't support it...

Comment 3 Graham Leggett 2005-11-22 21:02:11 UTC
Also ran into the same problem. As a result of this bug, we are unable to apply
Redhat supplied security patches to our reiserfs based systems.

Just because Redhat doesn't support reiserfs does not justify sloppy or
incomplete patching of the rest of the kernel.

If an option works in the raw kernel from kernel.org, then that same option
should work in the redhat kernel if the user chose to switch it on, even if
Redhat by default ships with a module switched off.



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