From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267615AbUG2PLv (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:11:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268090AbUG2PLt (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:11:49 -0400 Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214]:36811 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265799AbUG2OZ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:25:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:25:56 -0400 To: Kyle Moffett Cc: James Morris , lkml List Subject: Re: Preliminary Linux Key Infrastructure 0.01-alpha1 Message-ID: <20040729142556.GC17942@fieldses.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:43:10AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Jul 29, 2004, at 01:58, James Morris wrote: > >I think I heard that Greg-KH had some keyring code already, so there > >may > >be some existing code floating around. > I think that was David Howells, and I've looked at his code extensively. Could you summarize the differences? Would you please consider posting patches against his patches instead of starting over from scratch? I'd really like to start looking at these patches and figure out how we'd use them for NFS/rpcsec_gss, but this is made more difficult by the fact that there are now 2 or 3 different pieces of code floating around now that all claim to do PAG/keyring stuff. --Bruce Fields