[OpenAFS] 1.4.2fc3 client on RHEL5 beta 1

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:06:43 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> With this hack, the module built but couldn't be loaded: "libafs: Unknown 
> symbol tasklist_lock". Indeed, this seems to have been removed recently.
>
> I simply removed all the "read_[un]lock(&tasklist_lock);" statements,
> and the result is a client that apparently works under light load,
> but I'm not at all sure that this is the right solution. Any hints?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/8/153

I think I'm going to have to look at the kernel in detail to see what API 
we're expected to use. Hopefully the API we want actually exists.