arla on linux kernel 2.4

[Ted Knupke]

Love wrote:

> Ted Knupke <tknupke at mitre.org> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been running arla 0.34 under linux with the 2.4 kernel
> > for a few days now with no problems.   I would like to report
> > though that I did have to make some minor code changes to
> > get it to compile.  There was a type casting problem in the
> > arguments to atomic_read().   See the diffs below.
>
> Ok, I think I remeber that this changed in a 2.4.0-testN->testN+1. At least
> in linux-2.4.0-test7 d_count and (struct semaphore)->count are a atomic_ts.
>
> Love

This sounds very possible.   I am using 2.4.0-test1 and have not looked at any

of the more recent ones.   Seems like maybe the answer is to wait until the
kernel stabilizes before making any permanent changes.

Ted