[linux-cifs-client] [Patch] Make credentials file parameters consistent with command line parameters

[Jeff Layton]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:24:19 -0400
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:09:45 -0400
> Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > This patch makes the mount.cifs credentials file parameters consistent with
> > the command line parameters to remove ambiguity between the command line
> > parameter format and the credentials file format. That is, it parses for
> > both short and long form of the 'username', 'password', and 'domain'
> > parameters.  This patch is against the current cifs-utils-4.2.
> > 
> > I'm also thinking of adding a second patch that allows for parsing a
> > "domain/user", "domain%user" and "domain/user%password" formats as allowed
> > from the command line.
> > 
> > Comments are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for the patch. It looks like a reasonable change but the patch
> is malformed and doesn't apply. You've also sent it as a MIME encoded
> attachment. The ideal way to do this is to commit your patch to a git
> tree, use git-format-patch to generate the patch and git-send-email to
> send it.
> 

Nevermind...I was able to hand-merge the patch and will go ahead and
commit it to the repo. It'll save some time and effort in the future
though if you submit patches that can be pulled into the repo directly.

Thanks,
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Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>