On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:51 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > From: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > When a client gss upcall times out, we currently give a mesage reminding > the user to check whether gssd is running. > > Currently gssd only listens on pipes under nfs/. We expect to modify it > so it treats all clients the same regardless of protocol (as it probably > should have before), and new functionality may depend on that. So > people may need to upgrade gssd to get such new functionality. > > So it would be helpful if the error message specified which pipe exactly > the upcall was failing on, and suggested that the problem could be due > to an outdated gssd (not just a non-existant gssd). NACK. I belive I've already made clear that I really don't like the idea of using d_path() in an error message. Please just correct the existing error message to remind people that they need an up to date version of gssd, and add a comment in Kconfig stating exactly _which_ minimal version is needed. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
