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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> > If you'd rather have a PAG mechanism that doesn't depend on storing data in
> > the supplementary groups list, join the club.  Convince your OS vendor(s)
> > to adopt a mechanism that provides what we need.
>
> This is indeed the "club" I'm in. It's a broken mechanism and shouldn't be
> used.

Ok, that's great. So, what should we do about it?

Remember that it needs to work with most of the distributed kernels from
vendors, because once we require a rebuild we could just require a kernel
patch, and fundamentally we don't want to do either. So given either
working what what's in the kernel now, or getting a patch adopted are
required, what should we do?

Note that just saying "get a patch adopted" isn't sufficient. A greater
than zero number of attempts has been made. Tell us what should be in the
patch such that it will be adopted, and it will be written...