[OpenAFS] my afs wish list

[Ryan Underwood]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:37:12PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Paul Blackburn <mpb@est.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > AFS wish list?
> > 
> > a) AFS kernel modules included with the Linux kernel.
> >     (see also: http://kernel.org/  )
> > 
> >     This would help in portability to new Linux platforms
> >     and (hopefully) identify any "integration" problems early.
> 
> I've discussed this with a number of people and, frankly, it would be
> a PitA to do this.  It would basically require someone who's full-time
> job was to keep porting back and forth between OpenAFS and Linux
> source trees.  It would also require fixing the build process ("rx",
> "rxkad", and "afs" would/should all be separate modules instead of one
> large module).  It would ALSO require porting to Linux-2.5 at this
> point, and working around the half-baked AFS client that already
> exists in the kernel.

Speaking of kernel problems, is anyone working on the problems with the
pre-emptible kernel patch at this time?

-- 
Ryan Underwood