[PATCH] [TRIVIAL] Documentation: Fix typo 'CONFIG_AFS'
Paul Bolle
pebolle at tiscali.nl
Wed Jun 25 02:40:08 PDT 2014
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:09 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > Perhaps AF_RXRPC should be dropped from this short list (it is selected
> > if AFS_FS is set). But since I couldn't actually determine how AFS_FS
> > and RXKAD interact I decided to not touch that list any further.
>
> The key_type_rxrpc key that the AFS fs or userspace passes to AF_RXRPC
> indicates the protocol that AF_RXRPC should use. The AFS fs doesn't need to
> care how the security actually works and the token is opaque to it.
>
> rxkad registers itself with AF_RXRPC, which maintains a list. The
> security_index is the number that appears in the protocol that indicates the
> security driver to use.
Thanks. That would have taken me quite a bit of time to figure out.
I'll leave that short list as is, unless you prefer that I send a v2
dropping AF_RXRPC.
Paul Bolle
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