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

[Jack Neely]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:10:36PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Frank Burkhardt <fbo2@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> We don't want to force people to rebuild their kernel in order to
> use AFS.  That has ALWAYS been a design goal, even when I did the
> first Linux-AFS port of AFS 3.3 back, oh, ten years ago.  The problem
> here is that the kernel gatekeepers wont accept an "only-for-AFS"
> patch.
> 
> > Frank
> 
> -derek
> 
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I'd like to note that, IIRC, if you rebuild the kernel in RHEL (say for
said OpenAFS patch) you are left with a no longer certified version of
RHEL.  Again, IIRC, I believe that's about the one big thing that if you
mess with they wont support you.

Important to me as that's the direction I'm trying to take the
university I work for.

Jack Neely

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