cifs: warn about impending deprecation of legacy MultiuserMount code
We'll allow a grace period of 2 releases (3.3 and 3.4) and then remove
the legacy code in 3.5.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c
index 84e8c07..24b3dfc 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c
@@ -676,14 +676,23 @@
{
char c;
int rc;
+ static bool warned;
rc = get_user(c, buffer);
if (rc)
return rc;
if (c == '0' || c == 'n' || c == 'N')
multiuser_mount = 0;
- else if (c == '1' || c == 'y' || c == 'Y')
+ else if (c == '1' || c == 'y' || c == 'Y') {
multiuser_mount = 1;
+ if (!warned) {
+ warned = true;
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "CIFS VFS: The legacy multiuser "
+ "mount code is scheduled to be deprecated in "
+ "3.5. Please switch to using the multiuser "
+ "mount option.");
+ }
+ }
return count;
}