Re: SMB2.02 dialect support

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 23:33:10 -0500
> Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This patch enables optional (via Kconfig, specifying vers=2.0 on
>> mount) support for testing SMB2.02 dialect
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/cifs/Kconfig b/fs/cifs/Kconfig
>> index 2075ddf..461e2f5 100644
>> --- a/fs/cifs/Kconfig
>> +++ b/fs/cifs/Kconfig
>> @@ -172,6 +172,21 @@ config CIFS_SMB2
>>
>>         Unless you are a developer or tester, say N.
>>
>> +config CIFS_SMB20_DIALECT
>> +       bool "Support for original SMB2.0 dialect (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>> +       depends on CIFS && CIFS_SMB2
>> +
>> +       help
>> +         This enables experimental support for the original SMB2.02 dialect.
>> +         This could be helpful for developers testing against the earliest
>> +            SMB2 capable servers such as Windows Vista, Samba Version 3.6
>> +         and Windows 2008.  Without this selection enabled, only the
>
>                 Might mention that that's win2k8r1 (or r0?). Damn MS
>                 and their confusing marketing... ;)
>
>                 I agree with Pavel though that it would be best to just do
>                 this without a new kconfig option, unless you have real
>                 concerns that this support is badly broken.

OK.  Makes the patch easier.  They can pick the vers=2.0 vs. 2.1 in any case.



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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