Re: ioperm bitmap stuff for 2.4

From: Barry K. Nathan (barryn@pobox.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 13:50:37 EST


On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 07:12:18PM +0100, Nuno Monteiro wrote:
> [ let's see if three is the charm, the two previous attempts didnt make
> it to the list... ]

Seems like it. :)

> Hi people,
>
>
> Is the ioperm patch necessary in 2.4 also? The fix by Brian Gerst was
> commited to the 2.5 branch
> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bk-commits-head&m=105275597307968&w=2)
> some days ago, and as of yesterday vendors are starting to ship a similar
> fix to their kernels, so I suppose it is indeed necessary. What about the
> attached patch? It applies to both 2.4.20 and .21-rc2, please review.
>
>
> (Please forgive me if this has been discussed before, I did a quick
> search of the lkml archives and couldnt find anything relevant to 2.4)

Yeah, I couldn't find any discussion of 2.4 either. So for my own
kernels I pulled a patch out of Red Hat's kernels, and it looks
*exactly* like your patch.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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