On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:23:28AM +0100, Robert Schiele wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:28 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > While we're at it, is there any harm to letting NFS4_MAXMINOR be much > > higher? That would save the need to rebuild nfs-utils just because you > > want to test a kernel with new minor version support. > > That does not work. This constant is used to generate the string to be > thrown into the kernel and the kernel complains about items in the > string it does not know about, even if they are disabled, like "-4.7". > It would work if at the same time you got a patch into the kernel that > it no longer complains about unknown items that are disabled. That's a bug that was fixed by 93648ecc10bae7ed542056abb55f4b8f10ddbbb9 "nfsd: fix minorversion-choosing interface" --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
