On 12/01/2011 11:48 AM, bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This set of patches removes NFS v3 from the main NFS kernel module and creates > a new module containing the proc, xdr, and acl code. This will give us a > single directory to put NFS v3 specific code so it doesn't need to be mixed in > with the generic client stuff. > > I'm sure this could still use a lot of work, but I figured I would wait to see > what everybody thinks first. I imagine that once we get an "nfs submodule" > system working it'll be easier to convert v2 and v4 (and possibly v4.1?) to > modules. > > I split the second patch into two to make it easier to see what my changes were > to get everything to compile. Hopefully this will save some pain in having to > look through 7000+ line patch that resulted from my `mv nfs3*.c nfs3/` > command. I can combine everything in a future version of the patch. > > v2: > - I set the "diff.renames copy" git config option to create a smaller second > patch. Maybe this time it won't get me kicked off the mailing list... > Thanks to Boaz and Jim for the tip! > > Thoughts? Now what is the motivating reason behind this re-architecture other than making the upstream kernel literally impossible to back port to older kernels?? steved. -- 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
