From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
To: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Historical reason for NFS_MOUNT_FLAGMASK?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:15:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2F87F080-B9DA-40A8-9AFB-926F39F4CEB8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37CB7B45-A199-4815-8D4A-95D06CDA2D0C@redhat.com>
On 12 Mar 2025, at 11:23, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
> I'm looking for some bits in the nfs_mount_data.flags, and wondering why we
> have only 16 bits masked off due to:
>
> #define NFS_MOUNT_FLAGMASK 0xFFFF
>
> Does anyone recall why we've limited the ABI to 16 bits here?
Scott's pointed out that its probably something to do with the legacy binary
interface ABI and how we just OR the flags into the nfs_server's internal
flags..
I wonder how long we have to support the binary interface.
Ben
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2025-03-12 15:23 Historical reason for NFS_MOUNT_FLAGMASK? Benjamin Coddington
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