On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:49:04 -0600 "Steve French" <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have thought about this a few times, but always hesitated because I > was hoping that eventually cifs mount option parsing could use new > parsing functions (which would also shrink the "parse_mount_options" > routine which we call during cifs mount), and would cause us to > rewrite this. IIRC nfs was changed a few years ago to use the new > mount mechanism (match_table and tokens). > I think we'll still have a smb_vol struct or something like it, regardless of how we end up doing the parsing. The results of the parsing have to be recorded somewhere. There's a similar struct for NFS as well (nfs_parsed_mount_data). We definitely should switch to the standard parser, but I don't think this patch will make much difference in how that is implemented. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
