[OpenAFS] 2.6?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Andreas wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:20:44PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Paul Blackburn wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Derrick,
> > >
> > > Please could you explain what are the problems
> > > with porting OpenAFS to the 2.6 kernel?
> > >
> > the basic problem is we can't hook the afs syscall in anymore, so
> > everything which uses it needs to be reimplemented to work aanother way.
>
> Well, it's not like the 2.6 kernel was ready in a month, these changes took
> place over many months, but I assume there were bigger issues with openafs
> than to worry about kernel 2.5 (at that time).

i don't think any of the developers was tracking 2.5, no. so, it was a
surprise that our interface would no longer work that only came out when
redhat started doing it in their 2.4 kernels. none of the solutions
offered to linux-kernel met with any particular interest from that side.