[OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.2 client on RHEL5 beta 2

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 02:14:55 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear 
<shadow@dementia.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Rainer Laatsch wrote:
>
>> I circumvented the MODPOST issue by patching
>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2747.el5-i686/scripts/mod/modpost.c
>> around line 1103 ; replacing 'fatal' by 'warn'
>
> We can't reasonably do that. The problem is the loose binding isn't loose
> enough for this check.

No, but with the new AC_TRY_KBUILD test, we should be able to reliably 
determine at build time whether tasklist_lock is exported -- or at least, 
whether a weak reference will cause the build to fail.