[OpenAFS] OpenAFS & Linux kernel 2.6: please have a trackable bug report / task ?

Frank Burkhardt fbo2@gmx.net
Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:19:02 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:25:48AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
[snip]
> Without these two hooks AFS needs to:
> 
> a) rewrite all the pioctl calls to use a different method, and
> b) figure out a new way to handle PAGs.
> 
> So this will be a lot of work unless someone can figure out how to
> hook into the sys_call_table again.

Is it complicated to rewrite those 2 hooks just for AFS
(a little kernel-patch) or is there an OpenAFS-policy demanding
not to change the kernel-sources at all?

Frank