[OpenAFS] Fedora kernel builds

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:19:07 +0000


Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Is this just an oversight in the configuration or an actual change
> that will come to affect us longer term?  I would think that down()
> would be an important API to export!

I think this has to be regarded as a bug.  mutex_lock() is too important a
feature to be broken in this manner.  I'd recommend you send a patch to Linus
to remove the _GPL on mutex_lock_nested().

David