[OpenAFS] Recommended patches on top of 1.4.12?

[Dan Hyde]

> On 4/23/2010 3:09 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> writes:
> >
> >> I'm going to compile 1.4.12 for my servers in a month. Are there any
> >> recommended patches that I should apply to 1.4.12 from the 1.4.x git
> >> branch?
> >
> > I apply the following to the Debian builds:
> >
> >     - [135e196b] Create missing root directory when ORPH_ATTACH
> >     - [190ef2cb] volmonitor keep vtrans lock
> >     - [812dcc2c] Increase the maximum number of sysnames
> >     - [a123d4ab] Print rxdebug statistics as unsigned values
> >     - [4ca7b6fc] Remove lih_r
> >     - [f3899ac3] Allow GetSomeSpace_r to select an optimal host
> >     - [94a43966] h_TossStuff_r: check held-ness after lock
> >     - [b78eeb0c] h_TossStuff_r: make sure host does not go away
> >     - [0583af32] volmonitor copy link before calling free
> >     - [eb799d07] Move non-executable stack assembly code to end of file=
> 
> > Not all of these are particularly important, but they shouldn't hurt.
> 
> There are a number of rx patches on master that should be applied to
> 1.4.  There may be others as well.

And parts of ca613599a2537756462a420ae1a632747a433226 are in the works
getting ported to 1.4.x, and may be needed to help with the hostList /
HTFree / hostAddrHashTable corruption we're seeing.  Expect to see that
posted between now and Monday.