[OpenAFS] linux 2.4 and openafs

[Jeremy Katz]

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On Monday, February 05 2001, David Brumley said:
> I just compiled openafs for the redhat beta (fisher) 2.4 kernel
> (2.4.0-0.99.11).  The compile aborted at kdump.c:241 with error
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/include/linux/string.h:18: parse error before
> `__extension__`

kdump can't be built with gcc 2.96-RH.  Either patch the makefiles to
build with kgcc or don't build it all (I'm taking the latter approach :)
=20
> however, the kernel module did compile. I loaded the module and
> started up afs, but what was under /afs was a mirror of my root
> directories.  I.e. ls /afs showed:
> /proc /root /etc
> etc.
>=20
> anyone ever seen this before?

This is due to changes in the inode struct in the 2.4ac kernels.  Is
there any reason why struct vnode isn't just defined to be the same as
an inode?  It seems to be a duplication which leads to problems
regularly but without any real reason behind it as far as I can tell.
I'll test with a define tonight and try to clean up the rest of the
patches I have to get AFS relatively happy on the fisher kernel as well.

Jeremy

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Jeremy Katz
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