On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 08:21:16AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >From a lot of the recent work it seems like there's basically no > sharing of protocol definitions between the Linux NFS client and > server, which seems fairly annoying to me. What are you thinking of exactly? I suspect that there could be more sharing. > Is there a good historic > reason for this and did we ever attempt to change it? Maybe even > use some kernel-specific rpcgen variant to generate them directly > from the spec? I don't know if anyone's looked into it. There's a lot of hand-written xdr code (the encoders/decoders themselves, the maxsz constants in fs/nfs/nfs*xdr.c, the _rsize junk in fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c, ...). It seems error-prone to me though I can't recall if we've had a lot of bugs there in practice. --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
