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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> > 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?

Does it default to on or off?

What are RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake doing?

> Have you seen the suggested patches that David Howells has for 2.6?
>
> I have them at http://hozed.org/~hozer/afs/

>From a cursory examination they look livable. If we can have something
with 2.6 as it exists today I'd rather have that.

> 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

One architecture isn't that exciting, imo, unless it was i386, and perhaps
even not then.