Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH 3/3] 9p: add 9P2000.L unlinkat operation

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:12:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could be wrong, but a quick regression check of your patches fails
> against a legacy server.  Are you making sure the new operations are
> properly protected by a .L flag?

How about below diff

[3.0-pending@v9fs]$ git diff
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
index f40fdc3..436699e 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -499,13 +499,15 @@ v9fs_inode_from_fid(struct v9fs_session_info *v9ses, struct p9_fid *fid,

 static int v9fs_remove(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int flags)
 {
-       int retval;
        struct inode *inode;
+       int retval = -EOPNOTSUPP;
        struct p9_fid *v9fid, *dfid;
+       struct v9fs_session_info *v9ses;

        P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_VFS, "inode: %p dentry: %p rmdir: %x\n",
                   dir, dentry, flags);

+       v9ses = v9fs_inode2v9ses(dir);
        inode = dentry->d_inode;
        dfid = v9fs_fid_lookup(dentry->d_parent);
        if (IS_ERR(dfid)) {
@@ -513,7 +515,8 @@ static int v9fs_remove(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int flags)
                P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_VFS, "fid lookup failed %d\n", retval);
                return retval;
        }
-       retval = p9_client_unlinkat(dfid, dentry->d_name.name, flags);
+       if (v9fs_proto_dotl(v9ses))
+               retval = p9_client_unlinkat(dfid, dentry->d_name.name, flags);
        if (retval == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
                /* Try the one based on path */
                v9fid = v9fs_fid_clone(dentry);


related to renameat i have updated to check for -EOPNOTSUPP instead of
-ENOSYS. I am not sure any other dotl server out there is returning
-ENOSYS. We haven't documented what the server should return in case it
doesn't support any specific operation. 

-aneesh