On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Andreas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:20:44PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Paul Blackburn wrote: > > > > > Hello Derrick, > > > > > > Please could you explain what are the problems > > > with porting OpenAFS to the 2.6 kernel? > > > > > the basic problem is we can't hook the afs syscall in anymore, so > > everything which uses it needs to be reimplemented to work aanother way. > > Well, it's not like the 2.6 kernel was ready in a month, these changes took > place over many months, but I assume there were bigger issues with openafs > than to worry about kernel 2.5 (at that time).
i don't think any of the developers was tracking 2.5, no. so, it was a surprise that our interface would no longer work that only came out when redhat started doing it in their 2.4 kernels. none of the solutions offered to linux-kernel met with any particular interest from that side. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
