[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] doc: clarify that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf

[Suresh Jayaraman]

Hi Steve, Jeff,

If the following mount.cifs doc patch makes sense, can this be
considered for merging? I have seen atleast a couple of bug reports that
reports that cifs is not honoring configuration setting in smb.conf.

Thanks,

Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> It seems that for some users that are used to smbclient, it is not clear
> that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf for configuring client specific
> parameters. So, let's add this information to mount.cifs man page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
> ---
> 
>  docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
> index d0affea..32b2970 100644
> --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
> +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
> @@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ kernel log.
>  		the mounted resource is unmounted (usually via the umount utility).
>  	</para>
>  
> +	<para>
> +	Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honours client-side
> +	configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those client tools,
> +	<emphasis>mount.cifs</emphasis> ignores smb.conf completely.
> +	</para>
> +
>  </refsect1>
>  
>  <refsect1>
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Suresh Jayaraman