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Re: Bits from the kernel team



Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports
>>> without any extra dependencies.  I'm not aware of any significant
>>> breakage though some packages may rely on deprecated and removed stuff
>>> in procfs or sysfs.
>> I've been running upstream kernels without any problems on Lenny.
>>
>> The only issue I'm aware of is that the init script of nfs-kernel-server is
>> not compatible with 2.6.32.
>> The following change in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server fixes this:
>>  		# See if our running kernel supports the NFS kernel server
>> -		if [ -f /proc/kallsyms ] && ! grep -qE 'init_nf(sd|    )' /proc/kallsyms; then
>> +		if ! [ -d /sys/module/nfsd ]; then
> 
> I made that change myself, how could I forget it?!

That apparently breaks non-modular nfsd -- see #561674.

/mjt


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