Re: porting ClearCase MVFS module to FC4 2.6.15

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IBM says 2.6.15 isn't supported.  They provide source for wrappers that you can rebuild if your kernel is not supported.  I ported those over to get it to compile/link/insert under FC4 but not everything seems to be working.



 --- On Thu 05/04, Greg KH < greg@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

From: Greg KH [mailto: greg@xxxxxxxxx]

To: binky123@xxxxxxxxxx

     Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:36:18 -0700

Subject: Re: porting ClearCase MVFS module to FC4 2.6.15



On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:50:42PM -0400, binky123@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:<br>> <br>> I'm trying to get the ClearCase mvfs kernel driver to work under FC4<br>> 2.6.15.  I was able to get it to compile and link and the modules<br>> insert fine but certain ClearCase commands cause the system to hang or<br>> crash.  The latest kernel ClearCase supports is 2.6.9.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Some of the changes I made were to convert use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS<br>> to EXPORT_SYMBOL, commented out use of f_error, and the # of args to<br>> lookup_hash() has changed from 2 to 1, also LOCK_USE_CLNT is not used<br>> anymore.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> So my problems may be in the use of lookup_hash() and the<br>> LOCK_USE_CLNT but I'm not certain.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Any suggestions on what to do?<br><br>Ask the authors of that code?  Last I checked, it wasn't open source...<br><br>good luck,<br><br>greg k-h<br>

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