[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 1.5.19 build fails on SunOS 5.11 snv62 SPARC

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Dale Ghent wrote:

> On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:13 PM, William Yang wrote:
>
>> In Solaris 10, I can say definitively that it is used in kernel 120011-06 
>> (used in update 4 beta, projected release for 7/07 I believe), but I don't 
>> know if there are any earlier versions that use it.  I don't know about 
>> Solaris Express versions, but I would guess from the subject line that 
>> starting with at least snv_62, netstack was used.
>
> netstack came about as a result of the integration of IP Instances[1] into 
> the Nevada code base. IP Instances as a feature was deemed worthy by Sun to 
> back port to Solaris 10, and thus it is ending up as one of the new features 
> that Solaris updates add (Update 4 in this case)
>
> Because IP Instances was putback to Nevada, it'll thus be in any Solaris 
> Express released since that point... so Yes, it's in Solaris Express (SX, 
> SXCE, SXDE) and will be in Solaris 10u4 as you pointed out... which is a good 
> heads-up to have in our (OpenAFS's) case because my repeated begging to my 
> Sun sales team to get me on the update beta programs seems to not go far.

sorry, what i'm getting at is, how do we have a universal (pre and post 
whatever build) kernel module?