Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> With many minor releases, we update the version of openafs for that minor 
>> release.  This new version then get's pushed out to the rest of the releases.
>> With SL 5.5 we updated openafs to 1.4.12, and we are about to push that 
>> version out to the rest of the SL5 releases.  It currently is in testing, and 
>> it has passed every updating test I could think to throw at it and it updated 
>> without any problems.
>>
>> We plan on pushing this out on Monday - 12 July 2010
>>
>> To test or update
>>
>> SL5
>> -------
>>
>>       yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel-module-openafs\*
>>
>> or you can download rpm's by hand at
>>
>> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/openafs/
>> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/openafs/
> 
> Would there be any interest if we provided kmod-openafs modules that are 
> kernel-agnostic (or kABI-tracking as we say) from ELRepo ?
> 
> The advantage is that the modules keep on working through kernel-updates, 
> which makes update-cycles (and maintenance) to be less work.
> 
> I am tempted to create those packages, but without an interested party 
> that can provide sufficient testing the effort is kinda moot.
> 
> Let me know,

Hi Dag,
I thought that the openafs kernel modules didn't work well with kABI, 
but I would love to find that incorrect.  If you think it is possible, 
please build it, and I'm certain we'll have plenty of testers.

For SL5, I'd like to stick with what we have with the supported release, 
but I'm very sure that we would have plenty of users wiling to test and 
use the kmod-openafs module.  If everything goes well, we could offer it 
as an alternative.

For SL6, if this works we could use that and save us from having to 
create kernel modules with each kernel update.

Troy
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