Sam,
Getting code into the mainline kernel is an uphill task and is really
not worth the pain. A lot of our code may get restructured (especially
some of the vfs/dcache related hooks)
Once we drop all support for 2.4 kernels, I think maintaining configure checks
and the #ifdef checks in the kernel module don't seem that daunting
(hopefully ;))
thanks,
Murali

Since the client has to be shipped separately, and the versions
between kernel module and client have to match, I think it ends up
being easier to just ship them together.  That being said, I've been
smacked by the #ifdef checks in the kernel module in order to support
all the different kernel versions still out there.  It can make the
code hard to follow.  Someone with more history can answer this
better though I'm sure.

-sam

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> - David Brown
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