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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:15:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463678A2.7060000@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524f69650704301552j13cd46e5y53a233af753e0548@mail.gmail.com>

Steve French wrote:

> ...we need to decide whether the kernel
> implementation of SMB2 client should be a distinct module or just part
> of the cifs.ko module.

<snip>

> My guess is that less than 1/3 of the cifs module would overlap - but
> that overlap is enough that it would be easier to do smb2 as part of
> cifs (although it would make the cifs module somewhat larger).

What about pulling out the common code into a helper module, which can 
then be used by both cifs and smb2?

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-30 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-30 22:52 SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module Steve French
2007-04-30 23:15 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-05-01  9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-03 13:21   ` [linux-cifs-client] " simo
2007-05-03 14:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-03 14:36       ` simo
2007-05-03 14:43         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-03 14:53           ` simo
2007-05-03 15:14           ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-03 14:46         ` Gerald Carter
2007-05-03 14:56           ` simo
2007-05-03 15:35             ` Steve French
2007-05-03 15:44               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-04 17:12           ` Jeremy Allison
2007-05-04 17:43             ` simo
2007-05-05  9:55               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-04 18:35             ` Steve French
2007-05-01  9:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-01 19:26   ` [linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinctmodule Wagner, Chris (GEAE, CBTS)

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