Re: PATCH: Change in-kernel afs client filesystem name to 'kafs'

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:09:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:01:41PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > Now, if you could suggest another way to have both the *experimental* 
> > in-kernel AFS client and OpenAFS client with mounted filesystems, please
> > let me know.
> 
> Don't do that.  Or at least stay far away from the vger lists with any
> bugreports or suggestions that come up when running OpenAFS.  It's some
> of the worst code around, and it has a license that doesn't event permit 
> the blatantly stupid poking into kernel internals it does.

I'm going to do it, but I know who to flame when OpenAFS breaks, and
it's not the kernel list. Believe me I've done it enough already.

Besides the syscall table modification, which is just plain stupid, is
there any other poking around in kernel internals the openafs code does
that shouldn't be there?

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