On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:12:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could be wrong, but a quick regression check of your patches fails > against a legacy server. Are you making sure the new operations are > properly protected by a .L flag? How about below diff [3.0-pending@v9fs]$ git diff diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c index f40fdc3..436699e 100644 --- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c @@ -499,13 +499,15 @@ v9fs_inode_from_fid(struct v9fs_session_info *v9ses, struct p9_fid *fid, static int v9fs_remove(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int flags) { - int retval; struct inode *inode; + int retval = -EOPNOTSUPP; struct p9_fid *v9fid, *dfid; + struct v9fs_session_info *v9ses; P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_VFS, "inode: %p dentry: %p rmdir: %x\n", dir, dentry, flags); + v9ses = v9fs_inode2v9ses(dir); inode = dentry->d_inode; dfid = v9fs_fid_lookup(dentry->d_parent); if (IS_ERR(dfid)) { @@ -513,7 +515,8 @@ static int v9fs_remove(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int flags) P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_VFS, "fid lookup failed %d\n", retval); return retval; } - retval = p9_client_unlinkat(dfid, dentry->d_name.name, flags); + if (v9fs_proto_dotl(v9ses)) + retval = p9_client_unlinkat(dfid, dentry->d_name.name, flags); if (retval == -EOPNOTSUPP) { /* Try the one based on path */ v9fid = v9fs_fid_clone(dentry); related to renameat i have updated to check for -EOPNOTSUPP instead of -ENOSYS. I am not sure any other dotl server out there is returning -ENOSYS. We haven't documented what the server should return in case it doesn't support any specific operation. -aneesh -- 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