[OpenAFS] redhat 7.1 kernel modules

[Derek Atkins]

Actually, that's not quite the problem..  It may be related, but not
quite it.

First, the kernel-headers package in RH 7.1 installs headers into
/usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm.  It does not (as previous
releases did) install headers into /usr/src/linux.

Second, OpenAFS still looks at /usr/src/linux-<rel>/include, which
doesn't exist unless you install the kernel-source RPM.

Third, if you look closely at RH 7.1, /lib/modules/<rel>/build is just
a symlink to ../../../usr/src/linux-<rel> (well, mostly, but good
enough for this argument).  So, the fact that OpenAFS is looking at
/usr/src/linux-<rel> doesn't really matter.

All I can guess is that the symbol versions distributed with the
kernel-source RPM don't match the version symbols compiled into the
kernel.

-derek

Jeremy Katz <katzj@linuxpower.org> writes:

> On Friday, June 22 2001, T. Matthew Cocker said:
> > I had the same problem with redhat 7.1. I could not compile the openafs src 
> > or the openafs-kernel src (from rpm) vs the redhat supplied kernel src 
> > (some thing about missing kernel headers apparently due to redhat playing 
> > around this the kernel source headers). Solution get a real kernel source 
> > (kernel.org, either 2.4.2 or 2.4.4) and your problems will go away.
> 
> Actually, it's more due to OpenAFS making bad assumptions about where
> people's kernel source will live. 
> 
> According to Linus, the current canonical location to look for kernel
> source is /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.  Unfortunately, most 2.2
> kernels don't follow this convention (not due to any fault of their own,
> they came out before Linus came to this decision.  My packages
> (ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/realmkit/7.1/SRPMS/RealmKit/openafs*)
> do the correct thing at the cost of not working with distributions or
> kernels that aren't as up to date.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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