RE: [NFS] Re: [PATCH] repair nfsd/sunrpc in 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (and other -mm versions)

[Lever, Charles]

> Actually, Chuck's patch and Steve's aren't quite the same.  
> Both patches
> fix the problem that the portmap daemon requires a request to 
> set something
> to come from a reserved port.  In addition to this, Steve's 
> patch reduces
> the number of reserved ports that the kernel requires.  This 
> is the problem
> that resulted in pmap_create() being incorrectly modified in 
> the first 
> place.
> Steve's patch correctly puts the support in rpc_getport() 
> where it belongs.

mine does too.  pmap_create() is used for both GET and SET, and i added
a parm to allow pmap_create()'s caller to request a reserved port when
needed.
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