Re: [PATCH 2/5] fs,nfs: lift compat nfs4 mount data handling into the nfs code

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:18:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:16:04PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:22:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > There is no reason the generic fs code should bother with NFS specific
> > > binary mount data - lift the conversion into nfs4_parse_monolithic
> > > instead.
> > 
> > Considering the size of struct compat_nfs4_mount_data_v1...  Do we really
> > need to bother with that "copy in place, so we go through the fields
> > backwards" logics?  Just make that
> > 
> > > +static void nfs4_compat_mount_data_conv(struct nfs4_mount_data *data)
> > > +{
> > 	struct compat_nfs4_mount_data_v1 compat;
> > 	compat = *(struct compat_nfs4_mount_data_v1 *)data;
> > and copy the damnt thing without worrying about the field order...
> 
> Maybe.  But then again why bother?  I just sticked to the existing
> code as much as possible.

Trond, Anna: what is your preference?