[OpenAFS] More Info - RedHat 7.3 with new 2.4.18-17 kernel

[Troy Dawson]

Dan Pritts wrote:
>>On a side note.  I'm pretty sure some official people from OpenAFS have 
>>complained to RedHat, but is there anything that some of us users can do to 
>>let them know that they should stop doing things like this, just because 
>>OpenAFS isn't GPL'ed?  I'm sure it's breaking more things than AFS, but for 
>>me this is the only thing that I'm seeing.
> 
> 
> FWIW I believe it is not Red Hat's doing, but Linus/the kernel team.
> 

I believe you are right.  I was thinking this was redhat because in my search 
I was seraching for RedHat and sys_call_table.  So I was thinking this was 
redhat even though it said quite plainly this was in Linux-streams.
This is a little blurb from Petr Vandrovec to Brian Bidulock on the 9th of 
October.

 > And I believe that export symbols should NOT be _GPL_ONLY: before
 > (non-GPL) export of syscall_table was available, non-GPL modules were
 > able to hook syscalls, and when _GPL_ONLY was introduced into kernel
 > it was promised that we'll never make currently provided functionality
 > GPL-only (as far as I remember).

Obviously Petr is on our side.  But I wasn't able to find why they were 
starting to take these things out in the first place other than some ways to 
execute malisious code, but those letters were about 2 years old.

Anyway, it does get a little frustrating.

Troy

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