Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:33:53 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 |
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:34:01AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > 1. Yucky code in the NFS layers to copy a nfs_fh from userspace to kernel > space, translating it into something sane. > 2. Yucky code in the NFS layers to manually handle the nfs_fh to knfs_fh > translation. > 3. Accept the breakage of a *brand new* API in 2.2.18 and suffer zero > yucky code.
The change is rather useless anyways, because even in NFSv3 file handles cannot be >64bytes. Would even fit in a char, doesn't need a short nor an int.
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