On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:46, Ian Kent wrote:
> Thanks for your support.
>
> Unfortuneately the functionality I need very much relies on changes to the
> kernel module. Can we cooperate on this some how?
That seems to be jumping the gun a bit. I think the procedure should
be:
1. release a final 4.0.0 stable release, which is more or less -pre10
with bug fixes
2. maintain the 4.0 branch as stable (ie, bugfix only)
3. start a 4.1 branch with your new changes
Part of the 4.1 tree should be a kernel patch. We can look at rolling
it into the kernel when everyone is happy that it's stable.
> This is on my list. I believe that it can be addressed by bringing the
> parsing of the master map into the daemon. This will enable a much more
> generic init script to be written.
The approach I was thinking about was to factor all the init scripts
into two parts: one set of functions for doing autofs specific things
(parsing maps, starting and stopping daemons, etc), and a set of
per-distro scripts which use the autofs functions to do their work. The
per-distro scripts should have very little real code in them, just
whatever the distro needs an init script to do.
Why would moving the map parsing into the C code make things more
generic?
J
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