On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:29:49 -0700 > Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 08/27/2010 06:54 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: >> >> >> Also, I think bindaddr might not be the best name for the option. How >> >> about sourceaddr or srcaddr? >> >> >> > >> > Sounds reasonable. >> >> It doesn't matter to me. Please tell me which one you want me to use >> and I'll work on re-spinning this patch with ipv6 support. >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> > > My preference would be "srcaddr=". Shorter is good ... srcaddr wins unless we have a particular compatibility objective with other fs mounts (ie an existing mount option - which so far I have not been able to find). For completeness we should consider, at least briefly, one alternative name. Note that smb.conf (and thus smbclient indirectly uses this) can override the local interface using the optional smb.conf parm "interfaces" - we could shorten this to "interface" If anyone feels strongly about this being better ... -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
