[OpenAFS] AFS on linux 2.6.17/18

[William John Murray]

chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
> In message <1154693382.11126.3.camel@heplnw8.pp.rl.ac.uk>,William Murray writes
> :
>   
>> Thank you. I just upgraded to 2.6.17-1.2517.fc6 hoping that would
>> change something. It did. I didn't need to make anything in the kernel
>> area. But rlim is still there:
>>     
>
> the build test fails.
>
> 	/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2517.fc6/build/include/asm/processor.h:80: error: 'CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared here (not in a function)
>
> testing for features against the kernel keeps getting more complicated.
> take a look at http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=34561
> if you decide to try the patch you will need to run regen.sh after you
> apply the patch.  i suspect 2.6.17 will have other problems though
> since get_sb_nodev() changed and takes an extra parameter.  this
> patch depends on ticket #34561.  its hard to hit a moving target.
>
>   
Hm...thanks Chas,
                This patch needed a little squeezing to get it in, and 
then it
made no difference to the rlim error. I think I will leave this for a bit.
           Bill