[OpenAFS] OAFS 1.0.4a SMP with a stock RedHat 2.4.3-12smp kernel

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Andrei Maslennikov wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> 
> > I (and several other guys I know) tried to manage it, but not succeeded. 
> > OAFS always froze the (SMP) host with RedHat kernel. I suggest you to
> > use kernel from net. Kernel compilation is straightforward, just several
> > hours of compilation. I use, for closest to RedHat kernel results,
> > RedHat's kernel config. 
> 
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> thanks to a 1-line patch provided by Derrick J Brashear, OAFS now works
> also on SMP RedHat stock kernels. Derrick says that it is a matter of days
> before the corrected code will be available on openafs.org web site. 

Said patch is in the CVS tree as of yesterday also, and applies to
src/afs/afs_vcache.c (but has ifdefs around it, and configure glue was
also provided)

-D