[linux-cifs-client] cifs version 1.42 available for testing

[Steve French]

I have created a converged cifs 1.42 source tarball (ie current cifs) 
which should build and work on (roughly) 2.6.8 or later kernels.  This 
is only slightly beyond what was tested at Connectathon a few weeks 
ago.  Obviously I don't have every possible kernel version between 2.6.8 
and 2.6.16-rc5 to try this on but I have built and lightly tested on a 
few different kernel versions today (which went fine) to ensure that the 
new ifdefs do take care of the global kernel changes for each major 
kernel version.  I ran out of time today to back port it all the way 
back to 2.6.5 (SLES9) but will try to finish that up later.   There are 
a surprisingly number of little differences in the vfs between Linux 
kernel versions.

On the website I would like to keep just two versions of cifs code going 
forward (instead of various distinct ones for various old kernels)
    a) cifs-2.6.git (the current development branch) which gets pulled 
automatically into -mm (no ifdefs for kernel versions per typical kernel 
style)
    b) the version with the various ifdefs to allow it to build on lots 
of different kernel versions from 2.6.5 through 2.6.15, or whatever the 
previous kernel version is

Obviously this is in addition to the the mainline 2.6 linux kernel 
itself (which gets updated somewhat less frequently from the cifs devel 
branch.  I will try to keep these synced reasonably up to date in Samba 
svn (linux-cifs-client project) as well but git will be the main repository.
   
To build this:
    1) download http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.42.tar.gz
    2) untar it (e.g. gunzip cifs-1.42.tar.gz then tar -xvf cifs-1.42.tar)
    3) cd to the root of your kernel's build directory (e.g. 
/usr/src/<kernel-ver>
    4) make M=~/cifs-1.42-scratch/fs/cifs
    5) /sbin/insmod  ~/cifs-1.42-scratch/fs/cifs/cifs.ko
    6) if you test it and like this version, back up your 
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko file and replace it 
with the newly built one

If this works or doesn't work let me know.