[OpenAFS-devel] Updated redhat workaround patch

[Derek Atkins]

Frank Bagehorn <FBA@zurich.ibm.com> writes:

> I still would consider the missing symbols as a bug in the new kernel. 
> What would be the sense in leaving out kallsyms_symbol_to_address and 
> keeping kallsyms_address_to_symbol ?
> It's very easy to add the export statements for the two missing functions 
> to .../linux/kernel/ksyms.c and re-compile the kernel, then everything 
> works again.
> Without the need to fix RedHat's problems within the OpenAFS source 
> code...

Yes, but that requires rebuilding the kernel which can be challenging
on a large-scale deployment.

> Regards
> Frank

-derek

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