[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 2.6 kernel support anytime soon? Workarounds?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:24:27PM -0400, chas williams (contractor) wrote:
> for the curious, the sources in the openafs development cvs tree
> should now have preliminary linux 2.6 kernel support.
> 
> you WILL need to recompile your 2.6 kernel after applying the
> following patch (and before you run afs' configure as well).
> hopefully the dependency on exporting sys_call_table[] will go
> away in the near future.
> 
> i believe the setgroup hooking issues can be handled with the
> new security mechanism in 2.6.  would i be a terrible burden
> to require people to use CONFIG_SECURITY if they want pag support?
> 

Have you seen the suggested patches that David Howells has for 2.6?

I have them at http://hozed.org/~hozer/afs/

If you can make afs work with this mechanism, I can work on trying to
get patches into the kernel. At the very least, we can probably get them
into the PPC64 devel tree at http://source.scl.ameslab.gov


Following is the text of an email conversation with him..

>I have a patch to provide facilities for the retention of tokens within
>the kernel such that they're automatically deleted at the right times
>(written to incorporate Linus's ideas). However, that's not going to get
>in till 2.7 either.

>I've attached the patch should you want to peruse it, an example key
>definition module (for kerberos) and three files that make up a simple
>aklog client that can pass kerberos tokens to the kernel.

>This also provides a way to provide PAG numbers:-)

>> Thanks, and let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

>Um. Not a lot. Not unless you can persuade Linus to open 2.7. Once Linus
>accepts features, they'll be quite easy to backport to 2.6.