This change is dependency for followup patch "cifs: Treat unhandled directory name surrogate reparse points as mount directory nodes". Without it that followup patch would not get information if the reparse point was handled or not. It is visible in the original patch series: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/20241222145845.23801-1-pali@xxxxxxxxxx/t/#u On Tuesday 04 February 2025 18:22:35 Steve French wrote: > Do you have an easy repro scenario for the attached patch of Pali's > (e.g. creating on windows, a reparse point that will be unhandled on > Linux)? > > > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve
