linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3 37/45] nfs/sunrpc: No more encode and decode function pointer casting

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 20:37:30 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>
To:	Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 37/45] nfs/sunrpc: No more encode and decode function
 pointer casting

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Andreas Grünbacher
<andreas.gruenbacher@...il.com> wrote:
> 2015-05-29 1:11 GMT+02:00 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.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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