[trustees] Trustees and linux kernel 2.6.15

[Andrew R. <ae...@ks...>]

It looks like the 2.6 kernel has broken trustees.  The semaphore on
namespace has been moved to a global semaphore and as far as I can tell
the global semaphore is simply not marked for export to modules.

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=390c684367de37e1c2f9005cf92f7a746c69fdd3

This is bad and I fear that trustees will no longer be possible without
a patch to the kernel in addition to trustees.  I am nearly considering
finishing off the bugs list, adding the secondary module registration
code and starting down the difficult road of getting trustees included
in mainline.  At least then it won't be broken from release to release.

- Andy

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Andrew Ruder
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