From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:35:52 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] farewell to /sys/src/fs and IL In-Reply-To: <887856e91bcd2ab6df84dbc089414f76@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b3072a68-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > If you're running ken's fileserver, I trust that you're compiling your > own kernels. > > All you have to add to cpu kernels from sources to reinstate IL are > the current /sys/src/9/ip/il.c and add "il" to the kernel > configuration files (or keep your current ones). replica/pull will > remove il.c once, but thereafter pull should leave it alone (if it > doesn't, I'll manually remove il.c from plan9.db on sources, which > will force pull to leave it alone). Likewise for /sys/src/fs (if > that's the `kernel from sources' you're referring to). we run kernels directly from sources on quite a number of machines. one advantage of this is that if there's a problem with the kernel, it's clear that local modifications are not to blame. i can't see the harm in leaving il.c in the kernel. it shouldn't require much maintence at all. i volunteer to do any work required to keep it up-to-date. - erik