[OpenAFS] openafs 1.4.1 does not compile on several Linux 2.6 kernels despite patches to osi_probe.c

[Derek Atkins]

I suspect this patch will fail on 64-bit systems.  There's another
patch that I sent out last week that should work -- it's also
in the RHEL4 SRPM.

-derek

Quoting Rainer Toebbicke <rtb@pclella.cern.ch>:

> Even after applying patches to osi_probe.c openafs 1.4.1 did not 
> compile on Linux 2.6.9-34 kernels (and others).
>
> The reason: a NULL is passed to the module_param_array macro which 
> then attempts to take the address of that NULL.
>
> The attached patch defines a correctly typed static zero and passes 
> that one instead.
>
>
> (Bcc'ed to openafs-bugs)
> -- 
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> Rainer Toebbicke
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> Phone: +41 22 767 8985       Fax: +41 22 767 7155
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