[OpenAFS-devel] Testing of 1.3.79 on Mandrakelinux 10.1 : looking good

[André Derrick Balsa]

Hi,

We at INRIA are at the moment testing 1.3.79 on Mandrakelinux 10.1, which uses 
a slightly patched 2.6.8.1 kernel.

The client is undergoing heavy testing with a 1.2.13 server. I will report on 
any observed problems, but right now things look good.

I have however a minor problem to report during compilation : I had to use an 
ugly hack to have the libafs module load correctly.

If 1.3.79 is compiled out-of-the-box, I get an "unknown symbol audit_putname" 
error when insmodding the libafs module. Checking the kernel, this is an 
audited version of __putname. (the linux kernel people have added a syscall 
auditing function recently).
I simply hacked 1.3.79, replacing the single instance of putname by __putname; 
this is in /src/afs/LINUX/osi-misc.c. Obviously I am using the non-audited 
version of putname, which is no problem as far as we are concerned here at 
INRIA. Still, I would prefer if no hack was needed.

Thanks for any feedback and comments,
Regards,
-- 
André Balsa (Andrew)
Equipe Linux - MIRIAD
INRIA Rocquencourt - France
www-rocq.inria.fr/~balsa/