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    CIFS: make mknod() an smb_version_op · c847dccf
    Aurelien Aptel authored
    
    
    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: default avatarAurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRonnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
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