[OpenAFS-devel] Splitting out old Linux code

[Simon Wilkinson]

I'm in the process of making some fairly deep changes to the Linux  
cache manager, in the search of more performance, and I'm worried  
about the implications for the 2.4 kernel series. Rather than  
scattering the code with yet more #ifdefs, I was wondering how people  
would feel about the following proposal.

We create a new directory, src/afs/LINUX24 which is used for builds on  
2.4 and earlier kernels. This gets a copy of the current src/afs/ 
LINUX, stripped of everything that's 2.6 only. src/afs/LINUX then has  
all of the code that's only needed for 2.4 and earlier removed from  
it. This should both tidy up the Linux directories, and make it less  
likely that we'll inadvertently break 2.4 going forwards.

Thoughts?

Simon.