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

[Dale Ghent]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 12:29 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Dale Ghent wrote:
>>
>> I'll have to take a look at this netstack thingy more closely to  
>> see if there's an existing ABI to access it. I really haven't had  
>> the time recently to stay up on this stuff due to other things and  
>> I lost my Nevada/AFS build box. In case that such a thing doesn't  
>> exist, I fear it's a job that'll fall to autoconf :(
>
> that was my fear also, because, well, then we can't ship a (one)  
> module and know it'll work.

I took a closer look at this today. It seems that the only reasonable  
way around this is to not do the interface probing/sorting in the  
kernel module and instead do it in userspace via ADVISEADDR from  
afsd. We are, after all, touching private stuff in the kernel to get  
the interfaces.

/dale

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