On 11/12/2014 03:07 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:41:03PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> The NFS client modules are loaded on demand. The kernel will therefore >> not actually know the capabilities until we attempt the mount. > > Right, but the main nfs module can know at least an upper bound, and > that's all mount needs to start negotiation, isn't it? If the kernel > thinks 4.99 is supported but in fact that module turns out to be > blacklisted or something, then we can always try it and fall back. > Right, all mount.nfs needs to know is where to start... I was thinking mount.nfs to try to load the module but that's probably not a good idea... 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