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cifs: mark CONFIG_CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT as BROKEN (resend)

Message ID 1307356805-17112-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
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Jeff Layton June 6, 2011, 10:40 a.m. UTC
This will never work properly with CIFS, as the protocol has no ability
whatsoever for looking up files by filehandle. It *might* be possible to
eventually do this with SMB2, but that remains to be seen.

For now, it just plain doesn't work. Mark it BROKEN to discourage
distros from enabling it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
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 fs/cifs/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/Kconfig b/fs/cifs/Kconfig
index 66c68ab..fccf942 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/cifs/Kconfig
@@ -156,6 +156,6 @@  config CIFS_ACL
 
 config CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT
 	  bool "Allow nfsd to export CIFS file system (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	  depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
+	  depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
 	  help
 	   Allows NFS server to export a CIFS mounted share (nfsd over cifs)