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

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:54:39 AM -0400 Marc Dionne 
<marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/23/2009 12:37 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>> --On Friday, January 23, 2009 11:03:23 AM +0000 Simon Wilkinson
>> <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 09:51, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've tried compiling the kernel module from openafs-1.5.57 for kernel
>>>> 2.6.28.1, and I get this error:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, d_alloc_anon was removed from the kernel recently, and
>>> replaced with the GPL only d_obtain_alias function, which OpenAFS cannot
>>> 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.
>>
>> -- Jeff
>
> FYI, it turns out that someone did complain, and the d_obtain_alias
> export is no longer GPL only - this will be in 2.6.29.
>
> Which means that this part of the translator is now fixable, but the
> issue with the sunrpc functions is still there.

That's a little tricky, but I believe I can work around that.  In 
particular, I believe I had an approach in mind that would work without the 
sunprc hooks, at the expense of not being able to have per-client PAG's.

-- Jeff