Subject: Re: kern/34648: Kernel panic when using NFS root and configuring an
To: None <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/01/2006 17:48:28
> On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Elad Efrat wrote:
> 
> >  I attached the patch I sent to Nino for testing.
> 
> firmload needs to use the equivalent of super-user creds.
> 
> If NOCRED and FSCRED are no longer valid to be used in the kernel,  
> then please create an appropriate kauth_cred_*() routine to replace  
> their functionality.

firmware_open uses NDINIT->vn_open, which uses current lwp's credential.
is considered as a bug, too?

YAMAMOTO Takashi