[PVFS-developers] Build PVFS kernel module on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

[Robert Latham]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:29:07PM -0700, Stuart White wrote:
> checking for nonstandard RedHat changes to kernel... yes
> 
> (On RH 7.3, this replies "no").
> 
> Does this mean that I cannot build the kernel module to use the
> kernel-space daemon on RHEL 3?  Are there perhaps patches I need to
> apply to gets this to work?

Well, it means you'll have a little work ahead of yourself :>

I did the initial work ("nonstandard RedHat changes to kernel"), and
discussed it's shortcommings -- incluing lack of kpvfsd -- here

http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs-developers/2003-December/001341.html

you can find a link to a patch here
http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs-users/2004-January/001504.html

My patch addresses two modifications redhat made to their kernel.  I
believe the RHEL kernel has only one of those modifications, however i
do not have a RHEL kernel tree handy and forget what's different.  An
exercise for the reader, i suppose.

Have fun, and if you get it working please post your changes.
==rob

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Rob Latham
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