Re: [PATCH] cifs-utils: mention the required kernel version to make cifs.idmap work

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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:33:47 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> .. properly in the "NOTES" section.
> 
> Cc: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  cifs.idmap.8.in |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/cifs.idmap.8.in b/cifs.idmap.8.in
> index f2fa3b2..7adfdc6 100644
> --- a/cifs.idmap.8.in
> +++ b/cifs.idmap.8.in
> @@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ create      cifs\&.idmap     * * @sbindir@/cifs\&.idmap %k
>  See
>  \fBrequest-key.conf\fR(5)
>  for more info on each field\&.
> +.SH "NOTES"
> +.PP
> +For cifs.idmap to work properly you would need a kernel version 3.0 or above.
>  .SH "SEE ALSO"
>  .PP
>  

This looks reasonable, but I'm always a bit leery of calling out
specific versions like this. Some distros (e.g. Red Hat's and Novell's)
will backport features from later kernels, so saying you need a 3.0
kernel might be confusing.

We might want to rephrase this with something like "Support for upcalls
to cifs.idmap was initially introduced in the 3.0 kernel." It's a
little more weaselly but it isn't false if someone is working with a
kernel that has backported this code.

Sound reasonable?
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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