[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:42:39PM -0700, Steven Jenkins wrote:

> What do people think about forming an advocacy group? Maybe we'll make 
> more headway with the Linux team if we ask them, as major organizational 
> users of AFS, to help ensure that Linux in particular and open source 
> software in general continues to be responsive to our needs.

I don't think that this will get us anywhere with regard to Linux kernel
support. The kernel developers have always ignored political issues.
They only care for the technical side (which is a good thing IMO, but
for AFS it is a bit unfortunate now). Therefore, if they say "no" to a
patch from an AFS developer, they will also say "no" to the same patch
from "International OpenAFS User Group".

Without knowing all the details, I guess that our only chance to get
something into the kernel is to listen what "they" want and adapt to
"their" needs.

Bye, Tino.

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