Linux vfs_getattr patch (Was: Arla 0.25 on Linux 2.2.10 bug)

[Magnus Ahltorp]

> > Appended to this mail is the (small) kernel patch to Linux to add
> > `getattr' (and clean-up some stat handling).  The current arla code
> > from CVS should automatically figure out if getattr is available and
> > use it.
> 
> Is this patch going to be added to the Linux kernel, or should we
> continue to add it explicitly on systems which will be using arla?

We hope it will, but also, we hope that the new arla 0.27 will solve
the problem that the getattr patch solves without the need of the
getattr patch.

Getting patches into the linux kernel is not an easy task. We have
tried, but we haven't received a response yet.

/Magnus