[linux-cifs-client] Re: add parsing to cifs mount option for mounting to shares which support transport encryption

[Miklos Szeredi]

> Attached is a patch which adds various options to cifs_show_options
> (displayed when you cat /proc/mounts with a cifs mount).

Thanks.

>   I limited
> the new ones to values that are associated with the mount

Why?

>  with the
> exception of "seal" (which is a per tree connection property, but I
> thought was important enough to show through).
> 
> Eventually (as you suggested) cifs's parse_mount_options also needs to
> be rewritten to use the match_token API but that would be a big enough
> change that I would prefer that changing parse_mount_options wait
> until 2.6.27

Yes, there's no hurry with that.  It's just that it would be easier to
keep the showing in sync with the parsing if the parsing wasn't so
unruly.

Miklos