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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:35:07 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, alfred@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/56461: FreeBSD client rpc.lockd incompatible with Linux server rpc.lockd
Message-ID:  <20040618223507.GA74627@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040618114929.GE58783@empiric.dek.spc.org>
References:  <20040618114929.GE58783@empiric.dek.spc.org>

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In the last episode (Jun 18), Bruce M Simpson said:
> I've attached my thoughts on this issue. I haven't gone ahead and
> committed the fix in the PR as it makes us just as braindead as
> Linux, but it would be good to be able to have this in GENERIC so
> that it can be enabled in those situations where it's needed.

Linux kernels 2.4.26 and above have fixed this particular bug, so the
need for a compatibility hack on our end is not as great anymore.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.26 , search
for "cookie".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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