On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:16:04PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:22:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There is no reason the generic fs code should bother with NFS specific
> > binary mount data - lift the conversion into nfs4_parse_monolithic
> > instead.
>
> Considering the size of struct compat_nfs4_mount_data_v1... Do we really
> need to bother with that "copy in place, so we go through the fields
> backwards" logics? Just make that
>
> > +static void nfs4_compat_mount_data_conv(struct nfs4_mount_data *data)
> > +{
> struct compat_nfs4_mount_data_v1 compat;
> compat = *(struct compat_nfs4_mount_data_v1 *)data;
> and copy the damnt thing without worrying about the field order...
Maybe. But then again why bother? I just sticked to the existing
code as much as possible.
