Re: [RFC 0/4] NFS: Modularize NFS v3

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

On 12/01/2011 11:48 AM, bjschuma@netapp.com wrote:
> From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
> 
> This set of patches removes NFS v3 from the main NFS kernel module and creates
> a new module containing the proc, xdr, and acl code.  This will give us a
> single directory to put NFS v3 specific code so it doesn't need to be mixed in
> with the generic client stuff.
> 
> I'm sure this could still use a lot of work, but I figured I would wait to see
> what everybody thinks first.  I imagine that once we get an "nfs submodule"
> system working it'll be easier to convert v2 and v4 (and possibly v4.1?) to
> modules.
> 
> I split the second patch into two to make it easier to see what my changes were
> to get everything to compile.  Hopefully this will save some pain in having to
> look through 7000+ line patch that resulted from my `mv nfs3*.c nfs3/`
> command.  I can combine everything in a future version of the patch.
> 
> v2:
>   - I set the "diff.renames copy" git config option to create a smaller second
>     patch.  Maybe this time it won't get me kicked off the mailing list...
>     Thanks to Boaz and Jim for the tip!
> 
> Thoughts?
Now what is the motivating reason behind this re-architecture
other than making the upstream kernel literally impossible to 
back port to older kernels?? 

steved.