[Yaffs] Yaffs on 2.6

[Nick Bane]

I have just made a start to porting yaffs to 2.6.7 and had the same =
problem (plus the lack of cdevname - I commented out those printks =
temporarily).

The fix (10:00pm last night) was to  change to_kdev_t to old_decode_dev. =
It does the same thing.

Nick Bane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yaffs-admin@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk=20
> [mailto:yaffs-admin@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk]On Behalf Of Brad Beveridge
> Sent: 06 August 2004 04:36
> To: Zhonglin Zhang
> Cc: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Yaffs on 2.6
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> I have now managed to use the 2.6 build system to build yaffs. The =
only
> problem I currently have is that to_kdev_t is no longer in 2.6, and
> yaffs uses it in FillInodeFromObject. What is the correct fix for =
this?
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> Cheers
> Brad
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> Zhonglin Zhang wrote:
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> >2.6 kernel module format is different with 2.4 kernel module format.
> >
> >so in 2.6, you yaffs module name should be yaffs.ko not yaffs.o
> >
> >insmod yaffs.ko
> >
> >I have used the yaffs successfully in linux kernel 2.6.5. With just
> >minor repairs.
> >
> >
> >=D4=DA2004=C4=EA08=D4=C206=C8=D5=B5=C410:17=A3=ACBrad =
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> >>Hi all, does yaffs work with 2.6?  I've managed to compile=20
> against a 2.6=20
> >>kernel using CONFIG_KERNEL_2_5, but when I go to insmod the =
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> >>yaffs.o file I get
> >>insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/yaffs.o': -1 Invalid module =
format
> >>I am up todate with CVS.  I'll take a look at getting this going =
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> >>2.6 & if I do, I'll post the results.
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>Brad
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