CIFS: Introduce SMB2 Kconfig option
SMB2 is the followon to the CIFS (and SMB) protocols and the default for Windows since Windows Vista, and also now implemented by various non-Windows servers. SMB2 is more secure, has various performance advantages, including larger i/o sizes, flow control, better caching model and more. SMB2 also resolves some scalability limits in the CIFS protocol and adds many new features while being much simpler (only a few dozen commands instead of hundreds) and since the protocol is clearer it is also more consistently implemented across servers and thus easier to optimize. After much discussion with Jeff Layton, Jeremy Allison and others at Connectathon, we decided to move the SMB2 code from a distinct .ko and fstype into distinct C files that optionally build in cifs.ko. As a result the Kconfig gets simpler. To avoid destabilizing CIFS, the SMB2 code is going to be moved into its own experimental CONFIG_CIFS_SMB2 ifdef as it is merged and rereviewed. The changes to stable CIFS (builds with the SMB2 ifdef off) are expected to be fairly small. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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