On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 15:24 -0500, Vincent Liggio wrote: > Ok, that works. I will put a bug report into redhat so they hopefully > will integrate that into the latest code. Why they are releasing a -18 > for F15 I don't get, when it doesn't even have any code changes.
You didn't look: * Mon Feb 07 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-...@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 5:6.1.5-18 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild Standard practice when branching a release, to ensure packages that may not have been re-built don't have broken dependencies. > > So to sum up, amd 6.1.5 patched as below works fine on F14 kernel's with > autofs4. > > The amd redhat supplies does NOT work, in fact, it doesn't even load > properly with autofs enabled. What are you saying? If you add this patch to Fedora am-utils it then works? If that's not the case then there is more work to do! > > Vince > > On 02/25/2011 12:39 PM, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Ian Kent wrote: > > > >>>>> But the autofs4 module should be able to be used for autofs kernel > >>>>> protocol version 3. It may require some changes in user space and, > >>>>> since > >>>>> the v3 protocol in autofs4 hasn't been tested for so long, there > >>>>> may be > >>>>> some other bugs that need fixing. > >>>> > >>>> Problem is that amd I believe specifically looks for autofs3 (even > >>>> though > >>>> the code says minimum autofs version 3, it fails to work with autofs4). > >>>> And since no one is responding to the bug I put in about that, and the > >>>> last time code was released for amd was in 2005, amd using autofs on > >>>> the > >>>> current F14 kernel seems to dead. > >>> > >>> I'll grab the amd source and have a quick look. > >>> Where is the right place to get it? > >> > >> It looks like amd should work with autofs protocol version v4. > >> You should also try "modprobe autofs4" before starting amd and see what > >> happens. > > > > No, amd will happily work with either autofs3 or autofs4. > > > > The problem is that it (optimistically) tries to use the highest version > > that the kernel supports, which is autofs5 these days. But it itself > > doesn't have support for autofs5, so it fails miserably. > > > > The patch (copy/pasted so it might not apply cleanly) fixes autofs: > > > > commit 5cefcd3e1c7cb4943697e48996b8b1cbc7a9e7de > > Author: Ion Badulescu <io...@buggy.badula.org> > > Date: Tue Nov 30 07:14:23 2010 -0500 > > > > max supported autofs version is 4 > > > > diff --git a/conf/autofs/autofs_linux.c b/conf/autofs/autofs_linux.c > > index af61804..e901da7 100644 > > --- a/conf/autofs/autofs_linux.c > > +++ b/conf/autofs/autofs_linux.c > > @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ > > */ > > > > #define AUTOFS_MIN_VERSION 3 > > -#define AUTOFS_MAX_VERSION AUTOFS_MAX_PROTO_VERSION > > +#define AUTOFS_MAX_VERSION 4 > > > > > > /* > > > > > > -Ion _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
