From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:52:12 +1000
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Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
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       Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: nfs-utils-1.0.5 is not backwards compatible with 2.4
In-Reply-To: message from Steve Dickson on Friday August 1
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On Friday August 1, SteveD@RedHat.com wrote:
> I see your point...  I guess I didn't realize that  the "nohide" option  
> (that the user
> sees) has been using the NFSEXP_CROSSMNT define this whole time....
> 
> And I also agree with you if somebody is directly using the bits instead of
> the "nohide" ascii representation they are on there own since there is no
> real export API per say....
> 
> But just to make the clean up complete, wouldn't the attached patch be
> needed in the 2.4 kernel if  nfs-utils-1.0.5 was going to be used?

It wouldn't hurt, but it certainly isn't needed (as it doesn't
actually change any bit of compiled code).

I will put it on my list to send for 2.4.23-pre

NeilBrown
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