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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] NFS: handle IPv6 addresses in nfs ctl
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:17:10 +0100
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Hi Neil,
Thank you for the reply.

Neil Brown wrote:

>>I think this patch is unnecessary and hence not wanted.
>>The getfs / getfs calls should be considered legacy calls.
>>Adding functionality to them is not appropriate.
>>   =20
>>
I agree with that.
But I don't think we really add functionality here.
Modifications are just necessary to match the auth_unix_lookup new=20
prototype.
I don't see how we can avoid that.

Aur=E9lien

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