Re: [PATCH 1/8] cifs: Fix xattr name checks

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:43:19PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>> If you are planning to merge it in next few weeks (they fix bugs, and
>> are safe so why not),  I can simply just back out my changes from
>> cifs-2.6.git for-next branch and let you merge the trivial checkpatch
>> cleanup attached.
>
> Do you want it in mainline before 4.6-final?  If that can wait until 4.7-rc1
> (and these are both old and not earth-shattering), I've no problem with
> putting the entire series (including cleanup) into a branch merged into
> vfs.git#for-next; if you consider it 4.6-final fodder, it's probably better
> be your pull request.

They are old, but I don't mind taking care of them now, and seem
low risk.

> PS: are there any docs re setup for cifs testing?
There are probably more but I have been using the page

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Xfstesting-cifs

cifs has more xfstest issues than NFS, but some of
the same kinds of problems (caching of metadata
time stamps e.g.) are similar.

-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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