Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 1/2] fs/cifs: Converting into generic boolean

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>> Should not this become 'bool use_ntlmssp'? Possibly in a later patch?

>Yes, but ...
>fs/cifs/asn1.c file may go away eventually .  After getting most of the way
>through implementation quite a while ago, I realized that it would be too
>risky to rely on SPNEGO parsing in kernel (too easy to overrun buffers)
>unless the kernel had dedicated asn1 library (which would be very hard)

That sounds like it would be best to make it a FUSE.


Jan Engelhardt
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