To direct people to the appropriate resources when experiencing problems
with the NFS client here is a simple patch to 1) add module description
(with link to NFS documentation) to the nfs module, and 2) update the
NFS mailing list and web resources to the MAINTAINERS file.
Patch created against 2.6.11-rc2.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <[email protected]>
diff -urp linux-2.6.11-rc2-vanilla/fs/nfs/inode.c linux-2.6.11-rc2/fs/nfs/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.11-rc2-vanilla/fs/nfs/inode.c 2005-01-24 09:17:59.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.11-rc2/fs/nfs/inode.c 2005-01-25 14:19:58.000000000 -0800
@@ -1974,6 +1974,7 @@ static void __exit exit_nfs_fs(void)
/* Not quite true; I just maintain it */
MODULE_AUTHOR("Olaf Kirch <[email protected]>");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NFS client module (http://nfs.sourceforge.net)");
module_init(init_nfs_fs)
module_exit(exit_nfs_fs)
diff -urp linux-2.6.11-rc2-vanilla/MAINTAINERS linux-2.6.11-rc2/MAINTAINERS
--- linux-2.6.11-rc2-vanilla/MAINTAINERS 2005-01-24 09:17:40.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.11-rc2/MAINTAINERS 2005-01-25 11:29:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -1612,7 +1612,9 @@ S: Maintained
NFS CLIENT
P: Trond Myklebust
M: [email protected]
-L: [email protected]
+L: [email protected]
+W: http://nfs.sourceforge.net
+W: http://linux-nfs.org
S: Maintained
NI5010 NETWORK DRIVER
Regards,
---
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Software Engineer, Linux Technology Center
IBM Corporation, Beaverton OR USA
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On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 00:05, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:19:50PM -0800, Bruce Allan wrote:
> > Besides the NFS configuration comments in ./fs/Kconfig and the
> > MAINTAINERS file (which might not be present on a system), can you
> > suggest an alternative location to provide this pointer?
>
> MAINTAINERS is exactly the right place.
>
>
Yes, MAINTAINERS is the best place for that info, but there are many
Linux production systems out there that do not have the kernel source
installed. Where on these machines is one supposed to get that kind of
information?
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:56:20AM -0800, Bruce Allan wrote:
> Yes, MAINTAINERS is the best place for that info, but there are many
> Linux production systems out there that do not have the kernel source
> installed. Where on these machines is one supposed to get that kind of
> information?
prod your favourite distribution vendor to put MAINTAINERS into /usr/share/doc
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On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:08, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NFS client module (http://nfs.sourceforge.net)");
>
> I've not seen a single other module with an url in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
> yet, and it doesn't look like the right thing either.
>
>
I'm curious, why not? The MODULE_DESCRIPTION is meant to provide a
description of what the module does; the url referenced is to the
SourceForge project site for NFS which has the NFS Overview, FAQ, HOWTO,
and other assorted links which more thoroughly document just that.
Besides the NFS configuration comments in ./fs/Kconfig and the
MAINTAINERS file (which might not be present on a system), can you
suggest an alternative location to provide this pointer?
The idea is to provide a means for the user with a problem to be able to
quickly and easily find the proper assistance without wasting
inappropriate bandwidth, or better yet, resolve the problem on their
own. And, yes, I realize this won't work if nfs/nfsd is statically
built into the kernel.
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> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NFS client module (http://nfs.sourceforge.net)");
I've not seen a single other module with an url in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
yet, and it doesn't look like the right thing either.
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:19:50PM -0800, Bruce Allan wrote:
> Besides the NFS configuration comments in ./fs/Kconfig and the
> MAINTAINERS file (which might not be present on a system), can you
> suggest an alternative location to provide this pointer?
MAINTAINERS is exactly the right place.
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