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SubjectRe: [RFC v3 37/45] nfs/sunrpc: No more encode and decode function pointer casting
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On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Andreas Grünbacher
<andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-05-29 1:11 GMT+02:00 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>:
>> How is this even remotely relevant to ACL functionality, and why does
>> it deserve to bypass the NFS tree?
>
> I've posted this to the linux-nfs mailing list for review among
> others, how is that
> bypassing the NFS tree? Would you prefer those things sent to you personally
> as well?

No. I'm saying that changes that affect the core RPC code should not
be going through external trees as part of an external feature; they
should go through the maintainer trees.

> This patch prepares for for the next one which changes the prototype
> of the encode
> functions to return an error code. Without this patch, oversights in
> the next patch
> would go unnoticed; with this patch, the compiler will complain.
>

See the comments to that patch too. There are precedents for doing
what you are trying to accomplish, and they do not require changes to
core code.

Trond


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