devfs?

[Daniel G. Pruitt]

RHEL WS 3.0 (Taroon Update 3) - Kernel 2.4.21-20.EL

I'm compiling a monolithic kernel for diskless workstations, and I need
to use devfs because mknod doesn't work on our NFS file server (Network
Appliance Filer).  Anyway, devfs doesn't want to compile... I'm getting
the following errors:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/fs'
make -C devfs
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/fs/devfs'
make all_targets
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/fs/devfs'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
-Wno-unused -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -freorder-blocks
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium3   -nostdinc -iwithprefix
include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=base  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c base.c
base.c: In function `is_devfsd_or_child':
base.c:1417: structure has no member named `p_opptr'
base.c:1417: structure has no member named `p_opptr'
make[3]: *** [base.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/fs/devfs'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/fs/devfs'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_devfs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/fs'
make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2

Anyone out there using devfs with Red Hat kernel source?

Thanks,
Daniel
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Daniel Pruitt | pruitt at lanl.gov | 505.665.1561 | MS D413                
Continuum Dynamics, CCS-2, Los Alamos National Laboratory