Re: [NFS] Re: Linux 2.2.16pre5 - NFS?!

From: Dave Higgen (dhiggen@valinux.com)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 17:43:33 EST


Neil Brown wrote:
>
> On Monday May 29, chip@valinux.com wrote:
> > According to Matthias Andree:
> > > Merging the v2 fixes for 2.2.16-pre and deferring v3 for 2.2.17-pre
> > > would be the better way to go, then, would not it, in the meanwhile,
> > > util-linux could be fixed.
> >
> > Perhaps ... *IF* they can be separated cleanly. Trond? Neil?
>
> They probably can be separated cleanly. Just remove everything inside
> #if CONFIG_NFSD_V3 / #endif
> etc.
>
> However I really don't see the point.

Emphatically agreed. Hacking up a reasonably well-tested patch just for
the "cosmetic purity" of not including any NFS3 code seems to me to be
pointless work: and actually more likely to introduce new bugs rather
than preventing them....

                Dave Higgen

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