Re: [PATCH] iget-locked [2/6]

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 10 May 2002 22:06:46 -0500 (CDT), 
Kai Germaschewski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Sat, 11 May 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> True, but if the iget change goes into 2.5 it will probably be
>> backported to 2.4 later, 2.4 still has the restriction.
>
>It's a two line change to Rules.make, so I suppose that can be backported
>as well ;-) 

The change looks safe enough for the kernel but I worry about its
impact on distributors who play silly buggers with the modversion
files (R**H** springs to mind).  It would be polite to check with the
major distributors before backporting the change to 2.4.

>It's needed anyway IIRC, since s390 and ISDN both have fsm.o, and both do
>export symbols.

ISDN on s390.  The mind boggles.