i used to think it's good to put plan9 authentication in the linux kernel, and perhaps it's true, because linux is so big, this little more doesn't even hurt that much.
but it might be better to extend the pseudo-plan9-kernels in drawterm/inferno in a way so that the linux kernel can talk plain 9p to them, so that less code has to depend on redhat^Wlinux patch-refusal monarchy. already cinap is supporting dp9ik in drawterm, so...
