[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[Steven Jenkins]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@ieee.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>The way to succeed (if any way exists), is to convince the Linux
>>developers in good faith that supporting AFS advances *their* mission,
>>not just ours--that it's good for Linux to have prominent universities,
>>laboratories, and corporations adopt Linux *because*, in part, it's a
>>good platform for AFS.
> 
> 
> This is a good argument to put to the Linux vendors like Red Hat, but this
> argument won't go anywhere on linux-kernel.  You have to be careful about
> what argument you present where.  linux-kernel generally cares only about
> the technology and the code, and any sort of argument like the above is
> likely to make people *less* willing to look at the code.

Not getting much encouragement here :-(

If it's really true that linux-kernel is *hostile* to the real-world 
context---how their code is used, and by whom, and for what 
purpose--then I think they will eventually make themselves irrelvant.

Linus himself proved that the mightiest Titans can be shaken by a band 
of upstarts. Do they think they are themselves immune to that?

But I really don't want to carry on too much about this one issue. The 
real question is: do organizations with a major stake in the future of 
AFS feel any need to act in concert to advocate for AFS, or are you 
comfortable with what we have now? If we need to advocate, what should 
we advocate, and to whom?

Steve