From: NeilBrown Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:55:07 +0000 (+1000) Subject: nfsd: formally deprecate legacy nfsd syscall interface X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c67874f942e30039442d925b03793e0a46ddcddd;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git nfsd: formally deprecate legacy nfsd syscall interface The syscall interface is has been replaced by a more flexible interface since 2.6.0. It is time to work towards discarding the old interface. So add a entry in feature-removal-schedule.txt and print a warning when the interface is used. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 842aa9de84a6..076a2c02adaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -564,3 +564,13 @@ Who: FUJITA Tomonori ---------------------------- +What: access to nfsd auth cache through sys_nfsservctl or '.' files + in the 'nfsd' filesystem. +When: 2.6.40 +Why: This is a legacy interface which have been replaced by a more + dynamic cache. Continuing to maintain this interface is an + unnecessary burden. +Who: NeilBrown + +---------------------------- + diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c index b53b1d042f1f..7f0fc8861b85 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c @@ -121,6 +121,16 @@ static ssize_t nfsctl_transaction_write(struct file *file, const char __user *bu static ssize_t nfsctl_transaction_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *pos) { + static int warned; + if (file->f_dentry->d_name.name[0] == '.' && !warned) { + char name[sizeof(current->comm)]; + printk(KERN_INFO + "Warning: \"%s\" uses deprecated NFSD interface: %s." + " This will be removed in 2.6.40\n", + get_task_comm(name, current), + file->f_dentry->d_name.name); + warned = 1; + } if (! file->private_data) { /* An attempt to read a transaction file without writing * causes a 0-byte write so that the file can return