Re: [GIT PULL] fscache rewrite -- please drop for now

2020-08-17 Thread Steven French
On 8/10/20 12:06 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 12:35 -0400, David Wysochanski wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:48 AM David Howells wrote: Steve French wrote: cifs.ko also can set rsize quite small (even 1K for example, although that will be more than 10x slower than the de

Re: MAINTAINERS without commits in the last 3 years

2016-08-25 Thread Steven French
We can change mine from sfre...@samba.org to smbfre...@gmail.com since Samba.org email is more awkward to get that gmail these days (I read it less often) and I use a non-Samba.org email for my commits. > On Aug 24, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > Many email addresses in MAINTAINERS no

Re: [PATCH v1] cifs: use server timestamp for ntlmv2 authentication

2015-09-17 Thread Steven French
Nice catch. Merged into cifs-2.6.git for next > On Sep 17, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Peter Seiderer wrote: > > Linux cifs mount with ntlmssp against an Mac OS X (Yosemite > 10.10.5) share fails in case the clocks differ more than +/-2h: > > digest-service: digest-request: od failed with 2 proto=ntlmv2

Re: struct cifs_dfs_referral_inode_operations is unused

2008-01-28 Thread Steven French
mmedov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven French/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject struct cifs_dfs_referral_inode_operations is unused struct cifs_dfs_referral_inode_operations is unused, which does not seem to have been intended? cu Adrian --

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops

2007-05-23 Thread Steven French
kthread_stop(tsk); Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin phone: 512-838-2294 email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com "young dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/23/2007 08:05 PM To Steven F

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops

2007-05-23 Thread Steven French
> This can end up running kthread_stop() against an already-exited task. I don't think so since cifs_demultiplex_thread waits sufficiently long before exit but after setting srvTcp->tsk to zero (the wait is immediately after waking up any processes that may be blocked on requests on this socket

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops

2007-05-23 Thread Steven French
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , Steven French/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops On Wed, 23 May 2007 00:50:13 + "young dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > when I use mount -t cifs , the kernel

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops

2007-05-23 Thread Steven French
Yes - this patch looks better. I also am not sure whether the send_sig is still necessary to wake up a thread blocked in tcp recv_msg (only do a wake_up_process vs. doing a send_sig(SIGKILL) ) Unless someone knows for sure whether the send_sig is redundant, I would like to merge Shaggy's versi

Re: cifs causes BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU

2007-03-29 Thread Steven French
This should be fixed in 2.6.21 as of 2/26. The fix was http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3677db10a635a39f63ea509f8f0056d95589ff90 Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin phone: 512-838-2294 email: sfrench at-sign us do

Re: Linux 2.6.19.2: Freeze with CIFS mount

2007-01-30 Thread Steven French
ystem. > > I join the .config, the result of lspci, and the CIFS logs that have been > written to /var/log/messages (i don't know if there are relevant or not but > in the doubt...). > > Thanks in advance for the help. > > Best regards, > >Eric > [attach

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] CIFS: Remove 2 unneeded kzalloc casts

2007-01-21 Thread Steven French
thx - I have added these to the cifs git tree. Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin phone: 512-838-2294 email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com "Ahmed S. Darwish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/06/2007 07:17:44 AM: > Hi, > A patch to remove two unnecess