> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-cifs- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Long Li > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 2:20 PM > To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > Cc: Steve French <[email protected]>; [email protected]; samba- > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [[PATCH v1] 16/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD message with no > payload > > > > Implement the function to send a SMBD message with no payload. This is > > required at times when we want to extend credtis to server to have it > > continue to send data, without sending any actual data payload. > > > > Shouldn't this just be implemented as a special case in the version that > > posts > > data? > > It uses a different packet format "struct smbd_data_transfer_no_data". I can > restructure some common code to share between packet sending functions.
The SMB Direct keepalive is just a Data Transfer Message with no payload (MS-SMBD section 2.2.3) and the SMB_DIRECT_RESPONSE_REQUESTED flag possibly set. I don't see any need to define a special structure to describe this? Tom.
