Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752565AbdHMKYQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Aug 2017 06:24:16 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:58802 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbdHMKYP (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Aug 2017 06:24:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:24:12 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Long Li Cc: Steve French , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Long Li Subject: Re: [[PATCH v1] 16/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD message with no payload Message-ID: <20170813102412.GH17287@infradead.org> References: <1501704648-20159-1-git-send-email-longli@exchange.microsoft.com> <1501704648-20159-17-git-send-email-longli@exchange.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1501704648-20159-17-git-send-email-longli@exchange.microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 392 Lines: 7 On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:10:27PM -0700, Long Li wrote: > From: Long Li > > Implement the function to send a SMBD message with no payload. This is required at times when we want to extend credtis to server to have it continue to send data, without sending any actual data payload. Shouldn't this just be implemented as a special case in the version that posts data?