> On May 11, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-05-11 at 15:46 +0100, David Howells wrote: >> Hi Trond, >> >> I'm looking at extracting out the gssapi/krb5 support from the sunrpc >> package >> in the kernel into a common library under crypto/ so that afs (and >> anyone else >> - cifs, maybe) can use it too. Are you willing to entertain that >> idea - or is >> that a definite no for you? >> >> David >> > > Moving the code out of net/sunrpc into a shared directory would be fine > with me. > Note, though, that what's there is a rather old port of the MIT > kerberos library that was done by CITI around 2001/2002 (IIRC), so it > might be due for an update at some point. Would be nice to allocate legitimate SPDX tags for those old licenses if that code isn't going to be replaced. -- Chuck Lever
