[OpenAFS] Linux 2.6 support

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 01:59  PM, Miroslav Ruda wrote:

> chas williams (contractor) wrote:
>> the cvs head of the 1.3 should build a working kernel on a stock
>> 2.6 kernel distribution (it wont have pag support unless you patch
>> the 2.6 kernel to export the sys call table though and on some of
>> the non-i386 arches its also marked readonly which would also need
>> to be changed).
>
> Great, I was able to compile (but not use, see below) today's CVS head 
> on Suse 9.1 64bit on Opteron. See attached patch and paramfile for 
> amd64_linux26. I was not able to compile libafs with Suse kernel 
> 2.6.4-54.5-x86_64-default (kbuild for libafs.ko failed), but complete 
> compilation succeeded with vanila 2.6.6.
>
> Patch should be applicable for others in most cases, the only problem 
> I see is in acinclude.m4 - Suse kernel has version.h in in form
> #include "some suse config file"
> #ifdef default
> UTS_RELEASE=..
> #else
> UTS_RELEASE=..
> #fi
>
> The best way would be to compile some program with this header file 
> and print  UTS_RELEASE.
>
> I'm able to insert module to kernel, but I'm not able to start afsd - 
> it' frozen and no cachefile was created.
>
> sh -x /usr/vice/etc/go
> + /sbin/insmod /usr/vice/etc/libafs-2.6.6.ko
> + /usr/vice/etc/afsd -stat 2800 -dcache 2400 -daemons 5 -volumes 128
> ... and afsd is frozen forever ...
>
>
> dmeg |tail -2
> libafs: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> Failed to find address of sys_call_table
>
That's your problem!!
You have no exported sys_call_table. Just export it, recompile the 
kernel and hopefully it works...

Horst