Re: [Evolution] kernel 2.5 and evolution

[Ronald Kuetemeier <ronald kuetemeier com>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:40:45PM +0100, Joaquim Fellmann wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:13, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote:
>
> > Sorry but _NO_ it's not 2.5, Gnome is broken,
> > you can read all about it and get a patch on the evolution-hackers list.
>
> Wrong too.
> It seems to be Orbit assuming a kernel routine to return some value but
> receiving something else. 
> Actually it was a kernel bug (that got fixed) on which Orbit was
> relying.
> Problem is that Orbit didn't get fixed.
Maybe you should read the thread on evolution-hackers,and then contact some kernel hackers, Alan, Dave and Al 
come to mind.
My patch resets new 2.5 behavior for/in Orbit to 2.4 behavior. But the real problem is within Gnome, so far I 
only hear from the Gnome/Orbit maintainers it's the Kernel without any proof.  Just saying so is not enough, 
I know it's kind of hard to find a problem in a few hundred thousand kernel and Gnome/evolution source lines. 
Been there done that.  And if you take a look at the Gnome 2.X source you might find that it's mood to talk 
about this any further, if you understand the problem.
Ronald 

> A message on the linux kernel mailing list is refering to a bitkeeper
> changeset at the origin of the "evolution case". Before this changeset
> Evolution is dealing right with kernel 2.5 and after this changeset it
> doesn't work anymore.
>
>
> See http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-41/0444.html
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Joaquim Fellmann <mljf altern org>
>
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