[PATCH] whitespace cleanups for fs/cifs/file.c

Steven French sfrench at us.ibm.com
Mon Mar 7 23:18:04 GMT 2005






Not trying to ignore the whitespace patch, but I expect it to require hand
merging against current code due to the changes in the cifs bk tree (and
therefore the version in mm) which hit overlapping places in a few of the
same files.   Quite a bit of minor changes had gone into the cifs tree to
eliminate sparse warnings (the last update of sparse flags static functions
differently) - and 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 are a little harder to patch against.
This will be a lot easier when I push the next set of changes to mainline.

FYI - Just got back from connectathon testing of the cifs client against
various servers - generally went well but found out I have more reasons to
require new code in SetPathInfo for falling back to smaller infolevels for
time setting (not just for NT4 server now but it turns out it is also
needed for one current server) - but I found an easier way to do that which
is good news.   Also found out a more workable way to get to the user space
for dfs implicit "automount-like" referral processing.

We also reached agreement on an approach for posix locking from cifs client
to Samba which is quite promising.

Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com


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