[OpenAFS] Ubuntu 24.04 LTS got kernel 6.14 breaking ppa:openafs/stable

[Cheyenne Wills]

The Linux 6.14 patches have been merged into the OpenAFS 1.8.x stable
branch for the upcoming 1.8.14 release, which is still being worked on.

The 2 commits needed for Linux 6.14 are: 


Gerrit 16276
LINUX: Refactor afs_linux_dentry_revalidate()
02603ec7bb2b6dadd9fc6f30f1d180732673f3d9

Gerrit 16277
Linux-6.14: Handle dops.d_revalidate with parent
5f85032cdb7f0148dc6165773acb6d6ffe4b6914

Both are fairly small patches
-- 
Cheyenne Wills
cwills@sinenomine.net



On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:37:54 +0000
Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> today, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS got kernel 6.14.
> 
> The OpenAFS package in noble updates has patches for 6.14: 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openafs/1.8.10-2.1ubuntu3.4
> 
> Unfortunately, if you have ppa:openafs/stable configured, 
> 1.8.13-1~ppa0~ubuntu24.04 has a higher version number and is used,
> but OpenAFS 1.8.13 does not have patches for kernel 6.14 and dkms
> fails.
> 
> Ubuntu Plucky Puffin and Questing Quokka have 1.8.13.2 with patches
> for 6.14:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openafs/1.8.13.2-1ubuntu1
> 
> Maybe these can be used for the PPA until the next OpenAFS release?
> 
> Best,
> Jan Henrik
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