Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] nfsd: add a usermodehelper upcall for NFSv4 client ID tracking

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:49:47 -0400
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:27:06AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > What disadvantages do you see in doing it the way I've proposed?
> 
> Just a vague feeling, along the lines of: APIs can outlast
> implementations, and it'll take longer to rip this out if it has to be
> removed from both sides....
> 
> But it's just an environment variable, easy to ignore, I agree.  I can
> live with it.
> 
> --b.

Yep, that was the main reason I used env vars here. Userspace is free
to ignore them, and the kernel is free to not supply them.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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