Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

>>>>> " " == Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:

     > Hubert Mantel writes:
    >> is this part of 2.2.19pre7 really a good idea? Even in 2.4.0
    >> the size field is still a short.
    >> #define NFS_MAXFHSIZE 64
    >> struct nfs_fh {
    >> - unsigned short size;
    >> + unsigned int size;
    >> unsigned char data[NFS_MAXFHSIZE]; };

     > This is an internal kernel data structure.  Do you know of some
     > program that breaks as a result of this?
     >    _____

Any program which mounts an NFS partition.

If you do this, then you need to provide some sort of compatibility
layer for nfs_mount.h since the format for version 4 of the NFS mount
structure was decided more than 2 years ago.

Cheers,
  Trond
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