[linux-cifs-client] cifs mount hangs KDE apps

[John Dell]

David Morel wrote:
>>Also, perhaps this a dumb question, when I 'mount -t cifs' ..., does that
>>use the samba-client or does that use kernel cifs code (or both)?
>>    
>mount uses kernel space
>  
One of the devs says that KDE is doing a 'dir notify check' which is 
hanging the kernel - which
should not happen.

So, perhaps the problem is not KDE, but kernel CIFS. 
(http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92347#c29)
and it is just the case that GTK apps are not doing a 'dir notify check'.

I want to see if updating the kernel CIFS code would fix this, but I 
have no idea how to do that.

- Is the SAMBA CIFS client the basis for the kernel CIFS code, or are 
they unrelated?
- Is it possible to replace/update the kernel CIFS code with latest 
SAMBA code?

Regards,
John