[OpenAFS-devel] Re: linux 2.6.x module version magic failure on SMP systems (FC2)

[chas williams (contractor)]

In message <124200000.1087602930@minbar.fac.cs.cmu.edu>,Jeffrey Hutzelman writes:
>Based on the patches Rainer has already sent on the REGPARM issue, my 
>understanding is that the problem is at least in part a failure on our part 
>to actually have argument types match between definitions and references of 
>our own functions.  Now, why this only matters with CONFIG_REGPARM I don't 
>know.

it seems like some of the afs code isnt building with the regparm abi.
the new build scheme seemed to work for me so i didnt examine it closely.

>can't see any good reason for it.  Perhaps someone thought it was too hard 
>to call groups_alloc(0) in another place.  Wait...  didn't you write the 
>AFS_LINUX26_ENV case to begin with?

yep.  at one point i didnt know the right way to represent an
empty list of groups.  now i do.