[PATCH 0/4][cifs-utils] Improvement and fixes for command line options

[Germano Percossi]

Hi Jeff,

If you are OK with my explanation about patch 2 I can
send a fifth one with the requested documentation.

Thanks,
Germano

On 11/18/2016 08:50 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 18:54 +0000, Germano Percossi wrote:
>> The way command line parsing for mount is done, is not aligned with the
>> corresponding kernel module.
>>
>> Options checking is not strict, some options the cifs module accepts
>> are not honoured, others are accepted (and converted) even though
>> they are not documented nor otherwise accepted in the cifs module.
>>
>> Moreover, it is not possible to send an empty domain without receiving an
>> error, while the cifs module treats the 2 cases slightly differently.
>>
>> The other 2 patches are trivial
>>
>> Germano Percossi (4):
>>   [cifs-utils] Removed extra comma in front of domain
>>   [cifs-utils] Accept empty domains on the command line
>>   [cifs-utils] Fixed command line parsing and aligned with kernel
>>   [cifs-utils] Remove unneeded stdbool header in mount.cifs
>>
>>  mount.cifs.c | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Thanks. Patches 1, 3 and 4 look fine. I'm not quite sold yet on #2
> though since I'm a little unclear on when you'd want to do either.
> 
> Either way, it would also be nice to flesh out the domain= section of
> the mount.cifs manpage as well. It's a little thin...
> 
> Thanks,
>