[OpenAFS-devel] Is Linux Kernel option CONFIG_FILTER required?

[Derek Atkins]

I dont think it should depend on CONFIG_FILTER.  Perhaps your
other tweakings (or just recompiling) did the trick?

-derek

Michael Pronath <michael.pronath@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
> I had some problems with a linux kernel 2.4.23 and openafs 1.2.11,
> giving me kernel oops after starting afsd.  After I recompiled the
> kernel changing some debugging options and some options for USB that
> probably didn't make a difference, but also activated CONFIG_FILTER
> (is called "Socket Filtering"), it worked.
> Is this a random effect or is there a known (but unchecked at
> configuration time) pre-requisite of OpenAFS that CONFIG_FILTER must
> be enabled?  The help page during "make xconfig" for this option says
> "If unsure, say N", therefore it may be missing for some hand-compiled
> kernels.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
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