[PATCHES] de-couple vfs_streams_xattr from "ea support"

[Ralph Böhme]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:56:40PM +0200, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> On 03/03/2017 09:26 AM, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:37:35 CET Uri Simchoni wrote:
> >> "ea support" conf parameter determines whether smbd will handle SMB
> >> requests related to extended attributes. vfs_streams_xattr currently
> >> requires "ea support = yes", or it won't list streams, but doesn't seem
> >> aligned with the desired meaning of "ea support" which is the
> >> client-facing behavior, not the storage backend behavior. This is mostly
> >> relevant to vfs_fruit and Mac support.
> >>
> >> This patch set removes this coupling - it allows EA's to be disabled and
> >> EA-based streams to be enabled.
> >>
> >> First two patches are small unrelated cleanups, then the actual change,
> >> then changes to documentation, selftest, and testparm.
> >>
> >> Review appreciated,
> >> Uri.
> > 
> > While you guys are working on this. Could you please update
> > 
> > docs-xml/smbdotconf/protocol/easupport.xml
> > 
> > It more or less states that this option is only for OS/2 support ...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > 	Andreas
> > 
> > 
> How about this edit?

lgtm. Pushed.

Cheerio!
-slow