"David D. Kilzer" wrote:

David Riley [off-list ref] wrote:

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The current vger 2.3 kernel (whatever it is, maybe 2.3.18) compiles
without a hitch, except at the end when it's linking it all up and it
dies with an unresolved symbol "update_vm_chache" in hfs.o.  I'd like to
be able to use hfs with my 2.3 kernel; is there a fix for this?

Yes.  Someone must rewrite the HFS code to use the new unified buffer code.
I think both minixfs and ext2fs have been rewritten, but HFS and other
'foreign' file systems have not been rewritten.

The short-term solution is not to include support for HFS in your kernel.

The long-term solution is to fix HFS to work with the new unified buffer
code.  Unfortunately, the HFS maintainer is busy and may not be able to fix
this until well into 2.4.

So in the next stable kernel version, we will not have HFS support and,
of course, even less HFS+ support! Is there really nobody in the
linuxppc developers community who can do this? The current maintainer
has been inactive since 7 months (see the archives from February), so he
could not really object if someone else took over.

Personally, I think that, "if you break it, you fix it," but apparently
this doesn't always apply to kernel internals.

And never has applied to the PPC port, unfortunately.

--
Martin

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