RE: [Linux-decnet-user] FW: Linux Kernel 2.3.42

[Mauricio M. <MM...@ex...>]

I have located the latest DECnet code "decnet-2.3.50.diff.gz" at Steve
Whitehouse's ftp site (ftp://ftp.sucs.swan.ac.uk/pub/Linux/DECnet/
<ftp://ftp.sucs.swan.ac.uk/pub/Linux/DECnet/> ).

I've downloaded Kernel 2.3.50 and patched the decnet portion.  That all
works fine.

Looks like Kernel 2.3.50 doesn't have dapfs support.. so I'm going to have
to try and manually patch the dapfs portion.

Hope this works,

Mauricio
		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Mauricio Mejia 
		Sent:	June 13, 2000 12:38 PM
		To:	'Steve Whitehouse'
		Cc:	lin...@li...
		Subject:	RE: [Linux-decnet-user] FW: Linux Kernel
2.3.42

		So if I understand correctly.  I could compile with
experimental and be able to select DECnet OR I could download the latest
kernel and manually attempt to put in the dapfs entries based on what in the
2.3.42 patch?

				> The dapfs patch really needs looking at
again to fix the things which have 
				> changed in the VFS, although you could try
backporting the latest DECnet
				> code into a 2.3.42 kernel and see if that
works for you,

		What is the latest decnet code?  The newest one I see on the
download page is Kernel patch for Linux 2.2.14 & dapfs pre-release
<http://linux-decnet.sourceforge.net/dnk2214.tgz>  

		Which is much older than the 2.3.42 kernel.

		Is there another download site for the DECnet code that I am
unaware of?

		Thanks for you help,

		Mauricio

				-----Original Message-----
				From:	Steve Whitehouse
[mailto:st...@gw...]
				Sent:	June 13, 2000 12:15 PM
				To:	MM...@ex...
				Cc:
lin...@li...
				Subject:	Re: [Linux-decnet-user] FW:
Linux Kernel 2.3.42

				Hi,

				the VFS layer in the 2.3 kernels has changed
a lot. That dapfs patch for 2.3.42
				almost certainly won't work with later
kernels. On the other hand there
				have been several DECnet bugs which have
been corrected since 2.3.42 so the
				latest kernels have better DECnet code.

				Did you say yes to the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
option ? At some stage I moved
				DECnet from being CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to
being a standard option in the
				network protocol configuration, but it may
not have been until after 2.3.42,
				I really can't remember which version it was
now. The DECnet network
				protocol is a seperate option to the dapfs
filesystem whichever kernel
				you are running.

				The dapfs patch really needs looking at
again to fix the things which have 
				changed in the VFS, although you could try
backporting the latest DECnet
				code into a 2.3.42 kernel and see if that
works for you,

				Steve.

				> 
				> Sorry.. damn ALT-S sent the e-mail. 
				> 
				> As I was saying.. does anyone have DECnet
for working with DNMOUNT on any
				> kernel, and if so what patches did you
apply?  And where can I download them
				> from?
				> 
				> Any help is greatly appreciated.
				> 
				> Thanks,
				> 
				> Mauricio
				>
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				> -----Original Message-----
				> From:	Mauricio Mejia 
				> Sent:	June 13, 2000 12:15 PM
				> To:
'lin...@li...'
				> Subject:	Linux Kernel 2.3.42
				> 
				> Hello everyone,
				> 
				> After not being able to get 2.2.x Kernel
working with DNMOUNT I decided to
				> try 2.3.x    
				> 
				> I looked around at the patches that you
can download off of
				>
http://linux-decnet.sourceforge.net/download.html
				>
<http://linux-decnet.sourceforge.net/download.html>  and they have
				> A "dapfs for Linux 2.3.42+" listed.
				> 
				> I have applied this patch to the Linux
source code but I don't see any
				> DECnet in the network protocol sections.
I used to see DECnet in kernel
				> 2.2.x
				> 
				> This leads me to believe that the patch
only adds the file system support
				> but doesn't add the protocol support.
				> 
				> Does anyone have DECnet for Linux working 
				>
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