On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:18:46PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > I really don't think we need to rip the guts out of > mountd and exportfs just to remove this one nfsctl() in rpc.nfsd. I agree. > > Dropping backwards compatibility may be a reasonable thing to do, but > > it's something that we should be very clear about, and that we should > > put in a patch that does that and nothing else. > So you are talking about doing a complete rewrite of mountd and exportfs > just to take out that one call from rpc.nfsd... I just don't see the > justification... If we are going to do that, let just think about rewriting > all the tools to make the more v4 friendly... something we talked about > at the last bakeathon... All I'm asking is that any patch which disables support for older kernels (by ceasing to do the nfsctl) be a *separate* patch that clearly states which kernels we're dropping support for. Once we decide to drop such support (if we do), that might allow us to rip out a lot of additional code. That can be done later. --b. -- 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
