[OpenAFS] Solaris8 panic w/ patch 108528-20

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 7 May 2003 12:38:52 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 7 May 2003, Ray Pasetes wrote:

> "The system is panicing because the afs driver is calling
> read_binding_file() during the modload.  This function
> used to only take 2 arguments.  Starting in 108528-20, it
> takes 3 arguments.  The AFS driver is not setting up the
> thrid argument when it calls this function so the system
> panics.  read_binding_file() is private to the Solaris kernel.
> 3rd party modules are not permitted to call this interface."

Of course this means they presumably won't tell us what the 3rd argument
is, either.

I suspect if you comment out the calls to read_binding_file entirely and
recompile the module, it will work, as long as "afs" was in the file when
you booted. But I'm not sure.

> I was wondering of anyone else had encountered this problem.

I assume everyone else running that kernel patch has. I would hope so,
anyway.