[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS and Linux 2.6.25 (again)

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gautam Iyer wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:03:11PM -0400, Marc Dionne wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >>> I've desperately been trying to get OpenAFS (any version) to compile
>  >>> with the recent Linux 2.6.25 kernels.
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >> cvs co -ropenafs-stable-1_4_x openafs and try it
>  >>
>  >
>  > Wow. The kernel module compiled and installed great!
>  >
>  > But unfortunately the client part didn't compile this time ;(. I tried
>  > in to run the older client programs (already on my system) with the
>  > newly compiled kernel module, and this resulted in just hanging for ever
>  > :(.
>  >
>  > Any ideas?
>  >
>  There's another problem with the lwp prototypes - is that where you had
>  an error?  I sent in a bug report to RT.  One possible fix is to convert
>  *(*ep) to (*ep) in the savecontext prototype in src/lwp/lwp.h
>
>  Also, the changes for 2.6.25 affect afsd - you need to at least compile
>  and install a new version of afsd to get things working.
>
> > PS: Thanks for the patch on missing variables Marc. But looks like your
>  >     patch was already in CVS when I checked out

Not all of it. I haven't actually looked at RT in a couple days. Maybe I should.