[DRBD-user] 8.0.6 SLES9 .244 kzalloc undefined

Andre Konopka andre.konopka at presse-data.de
Fri Sep 14 12:02:29 CEST 2007

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Thank for your fast response,

it works perfectly.
What do you mean with 'dirty hack'? Do you assume that i run into 
trouble if I use drbd-8.x on SLES9? It is better to use drbd-7.x?

best regards

Andre

Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:39:12AM +0200, Andre Konopka wrote:
>> additional information:
>>
>> mmh.. I see that there is some code to use kmalloc instead of kzalloc
>>
>> make enable the 'backport' of kzalloc but obviously without success
> 
> SLES9 is missing the netlink connector,
> which we use instead of ioctl to configure the devices.
> we provide a "backward patched" connector,
> which aparently uses kzalloc too,
> but does not include the "drbd_compart_wrappers.h" ...
> 
> too bad.
> copy the static inline kzalloc thing from drbd_compat into cn_queue.c.
> 
> but be aware that all of this (the "backported" connector module)
> is but a very dirty hack. if you can, upgrade to SLES10,
> or something like that.
> 



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