Re: [PATCH] nfsd: clean up fh_auth usage

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On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:01:18PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 01:49:44PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Use fh_fsid when reffering to the fsid part of the filehandle.  The
> > variable length auth field envisioned in nfsfh wasn't ever implemented.
> > Also clean up some lose ends around this and document the file handle
> > format better.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > Btw, why do we even export nfsfh.h to userspace?  The file handle very
> > much is kernel private, and nothing in nfs-utils include the header
> > either.
> 
> Something like wireshark might use that information?  But anyway that
> doesn't mean it makes much sense to export.  I'm fine with moving that
> header.

Let's just put this version in for now, I'll do some research if the
uapi <linux/nfsd/*.h> headers are used anywhere at all, if not I'll
send a series to kill them all.

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