[OpenAFS-devel] Linux module failure: "Unknown symbol test_set_page_writeback"

Russ Allbery eagle@eyrie.org
Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:19:06 -0700


Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de> writes:
> On Jul 19, 2014, at 01:43 , Russ Allbery wrote:

>> The openafs module won't load with the current Debian testing kernel.  It
>> fails with:
>> 
>> [23378.773381] openafs: Unknown symbol test_set_page_writeback (err 0)
>> 
>> Is this something that's already fixed in the stable branch or at least in
>> Gerrit?  If so, could someone point me at the patches?

> I'm not aware of any change in the pipeline that looks to me like it
> would fix this. The linux specific changes headed for the next release
> are gerrit 11308 and 11309 (and, for completeness, 11205). The current
> assumption is that these will suffice to support Linux 3.16. But Marc's
> last confirmation was ~3 weeks ago, and I'm not sure how recent the
> "3.16" in Anders' review of 11309 was.

This is 3.14.12-1 in Debian unstable/testing, to mention, not 3.15 or
3.16.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>