Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750823AbWIBHWv (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 03:22:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750830AbWIBHWv (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 03:22:51 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:3722 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbWIBHWu (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 03:22:50 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:18:22 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Steven French cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Knutsson , sfrench@samba.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 1/2] fs/cifs: Converting into generic boolean In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 21 >> Should not this become 'bool use_ntlmssp'? Possibly in a later patch? >Yes, but ... >fs/cifs/asn1.c file may go away eventually . After getting most of the way >through implementation quite a while ago, I realized that it would be too >risky to rely on SPNEGO parsing in kernel (too easy to overrun buffers) >unless the kernel had dedicated asn1 library (which would be very hard) That sounds like it would be best to make it a FUSE. Jan Engelhardt -- -- VGER BF report: H 0.000513496 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/