NFS: convert proto= option to use netids rather than a protoname
Solaris uses netids as values for the proto= option, so that when someone specifies "tcp6" they get traffic over TCP + IPv6. Until recently, this has never really been an issue for Linux since it didn't support NFS over IPv6. The netid and the protocol name were generally always the same (modulo any strange configuration in /etc/netconfig). The solaris manpage documents their proto= option as: proto= _netid_ | rdma This patch is intended to bring Linux closer to how the Solaris proto= option works, by declaring a static netid mapping in the kernel and converting the proto= and mountproto= options to follow it and display the proper values in /proc/mounts. Much of this functionality will need to be provided by a userspace mount.nfs patch. Chuck Lever has a patch to change mount.nfs in the same way. In principle, we could do *all* of this in userspace but that would mean that the options in /proc/mounts may not match the options used by userspace. The alternative to the static mapping here is to add a mechanism to upcall to userspace for netid's. I'm not opposed to that option, but it'll probably mean more overhead (and quite a bit more code). Rather than shoot for that at first, I figured it was probably better to start simply. Comments welcome. Signed-off-by:Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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