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To: Adrian Head <ahead@bigpond.net.au>
cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Problems with 2.4.19-pre9 & XFS/DMAPI kernel config logic problem 
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 10:04:22 -0500
From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@sgi.com>
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>From:  Adrian Head <ahead@bigpond.net.au>
>What I did come across though is that the kernel config logic for XFS & DMAPI 
>doesn't really do what it should (AFAICT) from the TAKE message from a while 
>ago.  This problem I discussed with Eric & Chris Pascoe on #xfs but I'm not 
>sure what the outcome was.
>
>What happens is that make oldconfig doesn't pick up on the fact that DMAPI 
>should not be compiled as a module when XFS is compiled into the kernel.  
>Everything compiles correctly - however when a depmod is run it fails because 
>of missing symbols in the dmapi module.  

When xfs_support was merged back into the xfs directory, the dmapi module
build was broken.  You're missing symbols for things like sv_wait and kmem_*
stuff.

I'm working on it from time-to-time.

At the very least, this pointed out a few more dependencies between XFS and
DMAPI that I can work on.  Someday DMAPI won't need XFS...

Dean