linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] p9auth: add p9auth driver

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Message-ID: <20100421132152.GA16326@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:21:52 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Ashwin Ganti <ashwin.ganti@...il.com>, rsc@...ch.com,
	ericvh@...il.com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Ron Minnich <rminnich@...il.com>, jt.beard@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>, oleg@...ibm.com,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] p9auth: add p9auth driver

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
> Can we make this a trivial filesystem?  I expect that would match
> up better with whatever plan9 userspace apps already exist,
> remove the inode double translation, and would make it much more
> reasonable to do a user namespace aware version  if and when
> that becomes necessary.

Great idea, and so obvious once you mention it.  I think that's
the way to go.  Thanks, Eric.

-serge
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