Thanks Simon,
Well, I think that has put me off...sorry.
Bill
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:30 +0100, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2008, at 10:16, William Murray wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I am trying to compile AFS for Fedora 9 pre, with a 2.6.25
> > kernel.
> > osi_groups.c:54: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member
> > named
> > ‘parent’
> > This 'parent' member was only inserted last year, but it seems to
> > have
> > gone.
> > Has anyone already patched for this kernel?
>
> Fedora 9pre and OpenAFS don't currently play well together. Here's a
> quick summary of where we are:
>
> *) The dependency structure of the kernel RPMs has changed - Derrick
> has patches for the build system and spec file to fix this
> *) struct task_struct doesn't have a 'parent' element. This is due to
> a RedHat only patch which gets rid of ptrace. A configure test for
> this is now in CVS
> *) rcu_lock_map is no longer exported, so we have to use a weak
> reference to determine key_type_keyring. A fix for this is in CVS
> *) Setting tokens crashes. gcc seems to miscompile the picotl
> handling code, possibly due to the lack of prototypes. I have a patch
> which prototypes the relevant code, and gets this working again
> *) Occasionally, the root vnode seems to have a corrupt pointer to
> the Access structure. As yet, unfixed.
> *) Locks seem to be being left dangling, such that ls /afs will only
> run once. Again, I'm still investigating this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
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