Which patches for 2.6.30

Hi!

I want to use nilfs as the root file system of the next version of SIMPLUX (a Gentoo-Linux based distribution for pen-drives). Shutdown by now works cleanly. (I had some troubles in the past ...)

My question is: Which patches do I need to include the most current version of nilfs in the upcoming final release of kernel 2.6.30? nilfs will be directly included in the kernel (no module). Is it possible to have a single patch that does it all?

Greetings, Michael

Hi!

Basically, you should use the in-tree version without applying any additional patches because known bugfixes are included in the kernel 2.6.30 and the remaining patches are experimental.

But, you can try the latest version available on the experimental branch or for-next branch in nilfs2.git:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2.git

(As you can see in

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2.git;a=shortlog;h=experimental

the for-next branch is included in the experimental branch)

If you already have a git clone of linus' tree, you can add those branches like:

 $ cd linux-2.6
 $ git remote add nilfs2 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2.git
 $ git branch nilfs2-experimental nilfs2/experimental  (or nilfs2/for-next)
 $ git checkout nilfs2-experimental

Otherwise, you can get it directly by:

 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2.git
 $ cd nilfs2
 $ git checkout experimental

And, you can create the single patch by:

 $ cd nilfs2
 $ git diff master...experimental > ~/v2.6.30-nilfs2-experimental.diff

Note that the for-next branch and the experimental branch are frequently "rebased" and this may confuse their existing branches.

Cheers,
Ryusuke Konishi