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

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:25:15PM +0100, Holger Brueckner wrote:

> > Thus spake Timothee Besset (ttimo@idsoftware.com):
> > 
> > > I don't want to sound like I'm flamming or anything, but it's sad to
> > > see a project have it's technical decisions governed by the lowest
> > > skills set of it's user base (aka I can't compile my own kernels).
> > 
> > It's not that we can't compile our own kernels. It's just that doing
> > that for 50 which are all different is a real pain.
> 
> so then why can't you recompile the kernel with standard distribution
> setting (so they'll work on ever of your machines) with just a small
> modification so that afs will also work ?

Since you may loose some vendor support, if you use a "custom patched
kernel"?

> it's just a matter of about 5 minutes to change a kernel setting and
> wait for some minute for the package to build.

It's still a major effort if security fixes come out and you simply
cannot say "rpm -Uvh" but need to get source-RPMs, add your patches,
etc. The kernel is a moving target and you really want the kernel
developers to track it.

Bye, Tino.