Re: [PATCH 3/7] gssd: add support for callback authentication

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OK.  I'll squash this in and re-submit the series on Wednesday.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since I'm just getting around to this now... just
> replace this patch please....
>
> tia,
>
> steved
>
> Kevin Coffman wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:24 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:56:26PM -0400, Kevin Coffman wrote:
>>>> From: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Add support for handling upcalls on the new "nfsd4_cb" directory pipes.
>>>> Only new kernels (2.6.29) have support for this new pipe directory.
>>>> (The need for this new pipe directory will go away with NFSv4.1 where
>>>> the callback can be done on the same connection as the fore-channel.)
>>> My only complaint is that the code would be robust (and more
>>> future-proof) if instead of specifically looking for "nfs" and
>>> "nfsd4_cb", we just look at all top-level rpc_pipefs directories and
>>> handed directories under any of them in the same way.
>>>
>>> --b.
>>
>> In our offline discussion, Bruce convinced me that we should just
>> treat all the directories under the rpc_pipefs directory as equal, and
>> process any clnt directories that show up within them.  (This
>> currently includes, "lockd  mount  nfs  nfsd4_cb  portmap  statd".)
>> Any new directories appearing in the future will automatically get the
>> same treatment.
>>
>> Steve, I don't know what you might have already done with these
>> patches.  Would you prefer a replacement for this patch, or patch on
>> top of this?
>>
>> K.C.
>
>
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