[OpenAFS-devel] Re: 2.6.16 linux and d_cache

[William Murray]

  Thanks Marc,
          This works....now I can use FC5 big time, AFS client is a
must-have for me.

         I do hope redhat picks up the kernel patch though. It is nice
to be able to patch kernels, but even better not to have to.
    Bill
        =20
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 21:39 -0500, Marc Dionne wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>=20
> I managed to compile and run the current CVS head on a 2.6.15-1.1977=20
> kernel (FC5), modulo the following adjustments:
>=20
> 1 - Patch to acinclude.m4 that I posted earlier, to enable the=20
> STRUCT_INODE_HAS_I_MUTEX flag
> 2 - Replacing AFSTOI by AFSTOV, and ITOAFS by VTOAFS in afs_callback.c.=20
> (like you, don't now where these are supposed to be defined)
> 3 - Changing a "register int" declaration to "int" in ubik/vote.c to=20
> work around a compiler crash
> 4 - Finally, compiling a new kernel with this patch:=20
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0602.2/0936.html
>=20
> I haven't used it extensively, but so far it seems functional.
>=20
> Cheers,
> Marc
>=20
> William John Murray wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 00:45 +0100, William John Murray wrote:
> >  =20
> >>   Hello all,
> >>          I am still trying to get AFS on 2.6.16 linux.
> >> The latest snapshots, and 1.5.0 have a new routine in afs_callback.c
> >> which does not compile:
> >> 'struct dentry=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2 has no member named =C3=A2=E2=
=82=AC=CB=9Cd_child'
> >>
> >>    =20
> >
> > Thanks Marc...this fixes the d_child.
> > There is another oddity. The routine uses AFSTOI and ITOAFS,
> > but these don't seem to exist. I THINK AFSTOV and VTOAFS replace them I
> > think? But how come no one else has trouble with them?
> >
> >    Anyway, this brings me back to my problem of a couple of weeks ago:
> >
> > libafs: falsely claims to have parameter sys_call_table_addr
> >
> > on inserting the library...I still have no idea what to do with that.
> >     Bill