Re: [RFC 0/4] nfs-utils: nfsd support for minor version

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On Apr. 16, 2009, 20:24 +0300, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Benny,
> 
> Benny Halevy wrote:
>> Steve, please review the following patch that add support
>> for controlling the nfsv4 minor version support via
>> /proc/fs/nfsd/versions.
>>
>> [PATCH 1/4] utils/nfsd: fix -N optarg error printout
>> 	This patch fixes an existing bug.
> This is a bug... and has been committed...
> 
>> [RFC 2/4] utils/nfsd: add support for minorvers4
>> 	Under-the-cover support for minorvers4
> I see you let minorvers4 default to zero, which means 4.1
> support is off by default. Why? As long as we have away to
> turn of 4.1 processing (i.e. your 4/4 patch), then I see
> no reason we should have the support enabled by default. 

I was also thinking about using the new nfs-utils with old kernels.
Though, these should not puke on seeing [-+]4.1, they'll
just interpret it as enabling/disabling v4.
I'll test that...

> 
>> [RFC 3/4] utils/nfsd: add -n --nfs-version option
>> 	Add a command line option to enable versions
> I'm assuming you added this to be able to turn on 4.1 processing.
> But 4.1 is on by default, the '-n' flag not need, correct?

Right, and that would follow the existing design.

> 
>> [RFC 4/4] utils/nfsd: enable/disable minorvers4 via command line
>> 	Extend -n/-N syntax to accept <version>.<minorversion>
> look reasonable... 

Great.  Thanks for the review!

I think I'll have some time next week 
to revise and resend this patchset.

Benny

> 
> steved.
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