linux-kernel - Re: struct page vs page

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Date:	Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:06:17 -0800
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	Mark Tuttle <marklinux@...tlelabs.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: struct page vs page_link

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 01:28 -0500, Mark Tuttle wrote:
> Regarding:
> commit 18dabf473e15850c0dbc8ff13ac1e2806d542c15
> 
> This actually breaks the 802.11 subsystem (http://80211.sf.net) which
> relies on the page struct. (ieee80211_crypt_wep.c, line 190) Can
> anyone suggest an alternative kernel function or method? As of 2.6.24,
> the 802.11 subsystem cannot compile.
> 

Greetings Mark,

I have been updating the LIO-Target codebase to 2.6.24 recently, and
posted some information about what I ended up doing for struct
scatterlist->page changing to scatterlist->page_link and
include/linux/scatterlist.h

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/4/111

Hope this helps,

--nab

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