[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Compiling kernel module for 2.6.28.1

[Chaskiel Grundman]

>> use. Unfortunately that, and the relicensing of a load of the sunrpc
>> functions to also be GPL only, means that the Linux NFS translator is
>> pretty much dead in the water.
>
> Which reminds me; have we complained at lkml yet?
> ISTR Linus saying that existing interfaces would not be relicensed in this 
> fashion.

It seems that this (the sunrpc stuff) isn't about licensing. It's about 
"is this an interface" I can't find a discussion thread, but the commit 
log says 'The sunrpc server code should not be used by out-of-tree 
modules'. Why whoever feels the need to make it explicit I don't know.


As far as d_obtain_alias is concerned, it seems that it is intended for 
'Obtain(ing) a dentry for an inode resulting from NFS filehandle 
conversion or similar open by handle operations.' Since it was already the 
case that non-GPL filesystems had a tough time being exporters, this 
isn't a big change.