[OpenAFS-devel] porting openafs to another linux - problems w ith vRefcount type..

[Derek Atkins]

Just make sure your change is specific to 2.4. :)

-derek

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> Oh. Ok. In that case, my patch to fix it for parisc should fix it for the
> others as well, it's just two lines of changes to make it use
> i_count.counter instead in osi_vfs.h. 
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nickolai Zeldovich [mailto:kolya@MIT.EDU]
> > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:52 PM
> > To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] porting openafs to another linux 
> > - problems
> > with vRefcount type..
> > 
> > 
> > > What is going on special on parisc-linux (or on i386_linux) 
> > that allows it
> > > to work on one, but not on the other?
> > 
> > Nothing.  It doesn't build on i386_linux either now.  The latest
> > change to automatically generate the vnode structure from struct
> > inode made the refcount atomic_t instead of int.  I've sent a bug
> > report to openafs-bugs@openafs.org about it, but haven't heard
> > anything back yet.  Probably easiest workaround for now is to
> > s/atomic_t/int/.
> > 
> > -- kolya
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