[OpenAFS] module compilation problem against kernel 3.6.12 in release 1.6.5.2

Marc Dionne marc.c.dionne@gmail.com
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:30:34 -0500


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> wrote:
> Wojciech Tadeusz Fedorko <wojtek.fedorko@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Trying to build the openafs release 1.6.5.2 on a system running a newer
>> kernel 3.6.12.  Build fails when openafs module is being compiled. I
>> attach the relevant portion of the log.
>
>> Could anyone help me with this?
>
> You need 1.6.6pre1 or later for 3.6.12.

Just to clarify a bit, 1.6.6pre1 is needed to support a kernel that
has user namespaces enabled, which is true for debian's (and
ubuntu's?) recent 3.6.12 kernels but not necessarily for kernels in
other distributions.  For instance you don't need the user namespace
support if you are running a fedora 19 system with a 3.12 kernel.

Marc