Re: [PATCH] cifs: implementation id context as negotiate context

Steve French
2026-03-12T00:00:26Z

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/09, Shyam Prasad N wrote:
> > >On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi!
> > >>
> > >> I wonder which servers are expected to be implementing this? I suppose
> > >> this protocol extension is not proposed without a server vendor
> > >> interested in actually implementing it, otherwise the whole metrics
> > >> story doesn't make sense.
> > >
> > >Hi Ralph,
> > >
> > >This is supposed to give the server an idea of what version of cifs.ko
> > >the client is actually running.
> >
> > I agree with others on this point -- cifs.ko version is useless to match
> > to a particular behaviour or pinpoint a specific bug.
>
> Acked. Can you suggest an alternative field that will make the matching easier?

Kernel version is useful (major/minor #) but I don't see a problem
with using cifs.ko version as well as we do today since we had a few
cases where it could be updated for 'full backports' but in any case
either of these will help narrow client down a lot.

--
Thanks,

Steve