[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] Clean up option parsing in mount.cifs

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Sat May 15 18:49:12 MDT 2010


On Sat, 15 May 2010 20:28:05 -0400
Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> >
> > Committed. If you're feeling ambitious, it might be nice to move the
> > kernel cifs code to use the standard mount option parser -- a similar
> > change to what you did here.
> >
> > This actually dovetails nicely with an idea I had.  I was going to head
> over to the kernel side to see what needed to be done for umount.
> Is there a specific kernel tree I should patch against, or is 2.6.33.x
> proper good enough?
> 

You'll generally want to base kernel patches on Steve F's tree:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=summary

Cheers,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>


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