[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] cifs: add a v6scope= option for specifying the ipv6 scopeid

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Wed Jun 10 18:44:49 GMT 2009


On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:37:15 -0500
Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jeff Layton<jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:57:56 -0400
> > Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This should allow people to mount servers on IPv6 link-local addresses.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> >
> > I should mention that this patch and the mount.cifs patch should be
> > considered RFC patches.
> 
> Seems reasonable (and IIRC Dr. Holder's ack too), but can wait a week
> or so for comment before we merge this.   I merged the two more
> obvious patches already, and also put them in the SMB2 git tree.
> 
> 

Actually...I think I'd like to implement the % delimiter scheme instead
and maybe do some other cleanups in that area. Give me a week or so and
I'll plan to post a new set. Shouldn't be too hard to implement this
though.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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