Re: announce: updated autofs v4 patches; autofs-4.0.0-pre1

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 23:08:22 EST


Russell King wrote:
>
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes:
> > Can you extract the relevent messages from syslog? Does it print something
> > like "daemon (X, Y) kernel (X, Y)" after the "does not match daemon
> > version" message? If not, then you're probably still using the old autofs
> > module, since both are in 2.3 (select CONFIG_AUTOFS4 rather than
> > CONFIG_AUTOFS). You'll also need to add an "alias autofs4 autofs" into your
> > conf.modules if you're being modular.
>
> Is there any point in keeping the old code in the kernel, especially as the
> v4 integration has broken it?
>
> (hint - the change to AUTOFS_PROTO_VERSION caused the old autofs to only
> accept v4 of the daemon).
>

Yes, the v4 code will *NOT* go into 2.4 unless the v3 code is there,
unmolested. Jeremy: This must be fixed.

        -hpa

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