CIFS: make mknod() an smb_version_op
This cleanup removes cifs specific code from SMB2/SMB3 code paths which is cleaner and easier to maintain as the code to handle special files is improved. Below is an example creating special files using 'sfu' mount option over SMB3 to Windows (with this patch) (Note that to Samba server, support for saving dos attributes has to be enabled for the SFU mount option to work). In the future this will also make implementation of creating special files as reparse points easier (as Windows NFS server does for example). root@smf-Thinkpad-P51:~# stat -c "%F" /mnt2/char character special file root@smf-Thinkpad-P51:~# stat -c "%F" /mnt2/block block special file Signed-off-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
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