The following reply was made to PR kern/34648; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: thorpej@shagadelic.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, ndehne@gmail.com
Subject: Re: kern/34648: Kernel panic when using NFS root and configuring an
 interface that needs firmware
Date: Sun,  1 Oct 2006 17:48:28 +0900 (JST)

 > 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 If NOCRED and FSCRED are no longer valid to be used in the kernel,  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