[patch 5/6] Implement a new version of lucid spkm3 context.

[Kevin Coffman]

On 10/30/06, J. Bruce Fields <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:41:57PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:54:06AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > On Friday October 13, trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 15:35 -0400, kwc at citi.umich.edu wrote:
> > > > > @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
> > > > >   *
> > > > >   *     buf->length should be:
> > > > >   *
> > > > > + *      version 4
> > > >
> > > > How is this versioning useful? There doesn't appear to be any
> > > > provisioning for a fallback to previous versions for kernels that don't
> > > > support version 4. Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > Ping? I would like to see the answer to this one too.
>
> By the way, here's the kernel side of that change.  Opinions?
>
> --b.

My apologies, I was under the false impression that the kernel side
patch had already been submitted upstream...

Perhaps this nfs-utils patch should be reverted to make sure it
doesn't slip out until the kernel change is out -- and that it doesn't
cause breakage with older kernels.

K.C.