arla & linux-2.2.11

[Dave Morrison]

Hi all,

I've built arla in concert with a bevy of past linux kernels, but there seem to
have been recent changes in the kernel sources that break my string of
successes.  I'm working with linux-2.2.11 and arla-0.26 and when I follow the
simple prescription that's worked so well in the past, I get errors like this:

gcc -c  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__  -DDEBUG -I.
-I../../../arla-0.26/xfs/linux -g  -Wall -g -I.
-I../../../arla-0.26/xfs/linux/../include -I../../include
-I../../../arla-0.26/xfs/linux/../../include -I/usr/athena/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
../../../arla-0.26/xfs/linux/xfs_load.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:263,
                 from ../../../arla-0.26/xfs/linux/xfs/xfs_locl.h:57,
                 from ../../../arla-0.26/xfs/linux/xfs_load.c:39:
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: parse error before `ino_t'
/usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
union

Which comes about because `ino_t' doesn't seem to get defined.  After poking
around, I figured I might be able to solve things by doing this:

% setenv CFLAGS -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
% ../arla-0.26/configure

which got me past some of the errors but smack into new ones

/usr/include/linux/types.h:16: conflicting types for `uid_t'
/usr/include/sys/types.h:50: previous declaration of `uid_t'
/usr/include/linux/types.h:17: conflicting types for `gid_t'
/usr/include/sys/types.h:43: previous declaration of `gid_t'

Is anyone else seeing this same thing?  I'll be happy to dig into it further,
but first I'd like to make sure I'm not repatching the wheel.

Cheers,
Dave

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