[KARMIC] UBUNTU: updated compcache version to 0.5.3

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Tue Jul 7 12:00:05 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:33:03AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Tim Gardner wrote:
> > Stefan Bader wrote:
> >> This actually renames both modules. While this is maybe the way of following 
> >> upstream have you thought of:
> >>
> >> - will the users (and by that I mean the something like the installer)
> >>    need changing.
> >> - also before both old modules were controlled by seperate config options
> >>    CONFIG_TLSF and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COMPCACHE (both having some suboptions).
> >>    Now ramzswap.ko and xvmalloc.ko will be created only based on the setting
> >>    of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COMPCACHE. The Kconfig file still refers to TLSF, so this
> >>    needs cleanup (either way). Actually Kconfig seems to be terribly out of
> >>    sync with reality.
> >> - The Changelog says that a parameter also got changed (backing_dev ->
> >>    backing_swap. Along with the module renames we have to make pretty sure we
> >>    do not break something/-one.
> >>
> >> Stefan
> >>
> > 
> > Applied with Kconfig cleanups, though I'll be danged if I can figure out
> > what is important about 'config TLSF'. If you delete that clause, then
> > the ubuntu/compcache directory isn't built. Maybe one of you guys can
> > eyeball it.
> 
> That really sound odd. Andy wanted to have a second eyeball on it.
> To me it seemed like just forgotten.

Turned out we had the wrong configuration option in the upper level
makefile.  Fixing.

-apw




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