Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:27:53 -0500
To: bjschuma@netapp.com
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] NFS: Modularize NFS v3
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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 05:57:59PM -0500, bjschuma@netapp.com wrote:
> From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
> 
> This set of patches removes NFS v3 from the main NFS kernel module and creates
> a new module containing the proc, xdr, and acl code.  This will give us a
> single directory to put NFS v3 specific code so it doesn't need to be mixed in
> with the generic client stuff.
> 
> I'm sure this could still use a lot of work, but I figured I would wait to see
> what everybody thinks first.  I imagine that once we get an "nfs submodule"
> system working it'll be easier to convert v2 and v4 (and possibly v4.1?) to
> modules.
> 
> I split the second patch into two to make it easier to see what my changes were
> to get everything to compile.  Hopefully this will save some pain in having to
> look through 7000+ line patch that resulted from my `mv nfs3*.c nfs3/`
> command.  I can combine everything in a future version of the patch.
> 
> Thoughts?

Is this purely cleanup, or is there some practical reason why people
need to be able to unload v3 at runtime?

--b.