cifs: create a new Documentation/ directory and move docfiles into it

Currently, we have a number of documentation files that live under
fs/cifs/. Generally, these don't get picked up by distro packagers,
since they're in a non-standard location. Move them to a new spot
under Documentation/ instead.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>

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+Original Author
+===============
+Steve French (sfrench@samba.org)
+
+The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to:
+Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS
+improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue
+this project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to
+the IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features.
+Jeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server
+side of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing
+portions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank
+Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client)
+for proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like
+operating systems.  Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John 
+Newbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module.  Thanks to
+the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical
+Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally
+thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement.
+
+Patch Contributors
+------------------
+Zwane Mwaikambo
+Andi Kleen
+Amrut Joshi
+Shobhit Dayal
+Sergey Vlasov
+Richard Hughes
+Yury Umanets
+Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work)
+Domen Puncer
+Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup)
+Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug)
+Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups)
+Miklos Szeredi 
+Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version.
+Asser Ferno (Change Notify support)
+Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup
+Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers)
+Igor Mammedov (DFS support)
+Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code)
+
+Test case and Bug Report contributors
+-------------------------------------
+Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports
+and debug of problems they have found:  Jochen Dolze, David Blaine,
+Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori,
+Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen,
+Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special
+mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor
+bugs in error paths.  Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro
+and Dave Miller.
+
+And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE testers for
+finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES
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+Version 1.62
+------------
+Add sockopt=TCP_NODELAY mount option. EA (xattr) routines hardened
+to more strictly handle corrupt frames.
+
+Version 1.61
+------------
+Fix append problem to Samba servers (files opened with O_APPEND could
+have duplicated data). Fix oops in cifs_lookup. Workaround problem
+mounting to OS/400 Netserve. Fix oops in cifs_get_tcp_session.
+Disable use of server inode numbers when server only
+partially supports them (e.g. for one server querying inode numbers on
+FindFirst fails but QPathInfo queries works). Fix oops with dfs in 
+cifs_put_smb_ses. Fix mmap to work on directio mounts (needed
+for OpenOffice when on forcedirectio mount e.g.)
+
+Version 1.60
+-------------
+Fix memory leak in reconnect.  Fix oops in DFS mount error path.
+Set s_maxbytes to smaller (the max that vfs can handle) so that
+sendfile will now work over cifs mounts again.  Add noforcegid
+and noforceuid mount parameters. Fix small mem leak when using
+ntlmv2. Fix 2nd mount to same server but with different port to
+be allowed (rather than reusing the 1st port) - only when the
+user explicitly overrides the port on the 2nd mount.
+
+Version 1.59
+------------
+Client uses server inode numbers (which are persistent) rather than
+client generated ones by default (mount option "serverino" turned
+on by default if server supports it).  Add forceuid and forcegid
+mount options (so that when negotiating unix extensions specifying
+which uid mounted does not immediately force the server's reported
+uids to be overridden).  Add support for scope mount parm. Improve
+hard link detection to use same inode for both.  Do not set
+read-only dos attribute on directories (for chmod) since Windows
+explorer special cases this attribute bit for directories for
+a different purpose.
+
+Version 1.58
+------------
+Guard against buffer overruns in various UCS-2 to UTF-8 string conversions
+when the UTF-8 string is composed of unusually long (more than 4 byte) converted
+characters. Add support for mounting root of a share which redirects immediately
+to DFS target. Convert string conversion functions from Unicode to more
+accurately mark string length before allocating memory (which may help the
+rare cases where a UTF-8 string is much larger than the UCS2 string that
+we converted from).  Fix endianness of the vcnum field used during
+session setup to distinguish multiple mounts to same server from different
+userids. Raw NTLMSSP fixed (it requires /proc/fs/cifs/experimental
+flag to be set to 2, and mount must enable krb5 to turn on extended security).
+Performance of file create to Samba improved (posix create on lookup
+removes 1 of 2 network requests sent on file create)
+ 
+Version 1.57
+------------
+Improve support for multiple security contexts to the same server. We
+used to use the same "vcnumber" for all connections which could cause
+the server to treat subsequent connections, especially those that
+are authenticated as guest, as reconnections, invalidating the earlier
+user's smb session.  This fix allows cifs to mount multiple times to the
+same server with different userids without risking invalidating earlier
+established security contexts.  fsync now sends SMB Flush operation
+to better ensure that we wait for server to write all of the data to
+server disk (not just write it over the network).  Add new mount
+parameter to allow user to disable sending the (slow) SMB flush on
+fsync if desired (fsync still flushes all cached write data to the server).
+Posix file open support added (turned off after one attempt if server
+fails to support it properly, as with Samba server versions prior to 3.3.2)
+Fix "redzone overwritten" bug in cifs_put_tcon (CIFSTcon may allocate too
+little memory for the "nativeFileSystem" field returned by the server
+during mount).  Endian convert inode numbers if necessary (makes it easier
+to compare inode numbers on network files from big endian systems). 
+
+Version 1.56
+------------
+Add "forcemandatorylock" mount option to allow user to use mandatory
+rather than posix (advisory) byte range locks, even though server would
+support posix byte range locks.  Fix query of root inode when prefixpath
+specified and user does not have access to query information about the
+top of the share.  Fix problem in 2.6.28 resolving DFS paths to
+Samba servers (worked to Windows).  Fix rmdir so that pending search
+(readdir) requests do not get invalid results which include the now
+removed directory.  Fix oops in cifs_dfs_ref.c when prefixpath is not reachable
+when using DFS.  Add better file create support to servers which support
+the CIFS POSIX protocol extensions (this adds support for new flags
+on create, and improves semantics for write of locked ranges).
+
+Version 1.55
+------------
+Various fixes to make delete of open files behavior more predictable
+(when delete of an open file fails we mark the file as "delete-on-close"
+in a way that more servers accept, but only if we can first rename the
+file to a temporary name).  Add experimental support for more safely
+handling fcntl(F_SETLEASE).  Convert cifs to using blocking tcp
+sends, and also let tcp autotune the socket send and receive buffers.
+This reduces the number of EAGAIN errors returned by TCP/IP in
+high stress workloads (and the number of retries on socket writes
+when sending large SMBWriteX requests).  Fix case in which a portion of
+data can in some cases not get written to the file on the server before the
+file is closed.  Fix DFS parsing to properly handle path consumed field,
+and to handle certain codepage conversions better.  Fix mount and
+umount race that can cause oops in mount or umount or reconnect.
+
+Version 1.54
+------------
+Fix premature write failure on congested networks (we would give up
+on EAGAIN from the socket too quickly on large writes).
+Cifs_mkdir and cifs_create now respect the setgid bit on parent dir.
+Fix endian problems in acl (mode from/to cifs acl) on bigendian
+architectures.  Fix problems with preserving timestamps on copying open
+files (e.g. "cp -a") to Windows servers.  For mkdir and create honor setgid bit
+on parent directory when server supports Unix Extensions but not POSIX
+create. Update cifs.upcall version to handle new Kerberos sec flags
+(this requires update of cifs.upcall program from Samba).  Fix memory leak
+on dns_upcall (resolving DFS referralls).  Fix plain text password
+authentication (requires setting SecurityFlags to 0x30030 to enable
+lanman and plain text though).  Fix writes to be at correct offset when
+file is open with O_APPEND and file is on a directio (forcediretio) mount.
+Fix bug in rewinding readdir directory searches.  Add nodfs mount option.
+
+Version 1.53
+------------
+DFS support added (Microsoft Distributed File System client support needed
+for referrals which enable a hierarchical name space among servers).
+Disable temporary caching of mode bits to servers which do not support
+storing of mode (e.g. Windows servers, when client mounts without cifsacl
+mount option) and add new "dynperm" mount option to enable temporary caching
+of mode (enable old behavior).  Fix hang on mount caused when server crashes
+tcp session during negotiate protocol.
+
+Version 1.52
+------------
+Fix oops on second mount to server when null auth is used.
+Enable experimental Kerberos support.  Return writebehind errors on flush
+and sync so that events like out of disk space get reported properly on
+cached files. Fix setxattr failure to certain Samba versions. Fix mount
+of second share to disconnected server session (autoreconnect on this).
+Add ability to modify cifs acls for handling chmod (when mounted with
+cifsacl flag). Fix prefixpath path separator so we can handle mounts
+with prefixpaths longer than one directory (one path component) when
+mounted to Windows servers.  Fix slow file open when cifsacl
+enabled. Fix memory leak in FindNext when the SMB call returns -EBADF.
+
+
+Version 1.51
+------------
+Fix memory leak in statfs when mounted to very old servers (e.g.
+Windows 9x).  Add new feature "POSIX open" which allows servers
+which support the current POSIX Extensions to provide better semantics
+(e.g. delete for open files opened with posix open).  Take into
+account umask on posix mkdir not just older style mkdir.  Add
+ability to mount to IPC$ share (which allows CIFS named pipes to be
+opened, read and written as if they were files).  When 1st tree
+connect fails (e.g. due to signing negotiation failure) fix
+leak that causes cifsd not to stop and rmmod to fail to cleanup
+cifs_request_buffers pool. Fix problem with POSIX Open/Mkdir on
+bigendian architectures. Fix possible memory corruption when
+EAGAIN returned on kern_recvmsg. Return better error if server
+requires packet signing but client has disabled it. When mounted
+with cifsacl mount option - mode bits are approximated based
+on the contents of the ACL of the file or directory. When cifs
+mount helper is missing convert make sure that UNC name 
+has backslash (not forward slash) between ip address of server
+and the share name.
+
+Version 1.50
+------------
+Fix NTLMv2 signing. NFS server mounted over cifs works (if cifs mount is
+done with "serverino" mount option).  Add support for POSIX Unlink
+(helps with certain sharing violation cases when server such as
+Samba supports newer POSIX CIFS Protocol Extensions). Add "nounix"
+mount option to allow disabling the CIFS Unix Extensions for just
+that mount. Fix hang on spinlock in find_writable_file (race when
+reopening file after session crash).  Byte range unlock request to
+windows server could unlock more bytes (on server copy of file)
+than intended if start of unlock request is well before start of
+a previous byte range lock that we issued.
+
+Version 1.49
+------------
+IPv6 support.  Enable ipv6 addresses to be passed on mount (put the ipv6
+address after the "ip=" mount option, at least until mount.cifs is fixed to
+handle DNS host to ipv6 name translation).  Accept override of uid or gid
+on mount even when Unix Extensions are negotiated (it used to be ignored
+when Unix Extensions were ignored).  This allows users to override the
+default uid and gid for files when they are certain that the uids or
+gids on the server do not match those of the client.  Make "sec=none"
+mount override username (so that null user connection is attempted)
+to match what documentation said. Support for very large reads, over 127K,
+available to some newer servers (such as Samba 3.0.26 and later but
+note that it also requires setting CIFSMaxBufSize at module install
+time to a larger value which may hurt performance in some cases).
+Make sign option force signing (or fail if server does not support it).
+
+Version 1.48
+------------
+Fix mtime bouncing around from local idea of last write times to remote time.
+Fix hang (in i_size_read) when simultaneous size update of same remote file
+on smp system corrupts sequence number. Do not reread unnecessarily partial page
+(which we are about to overwrite anyway) when writing out file opened rw.
+When DOS attribute of file on non-Unix server's file changes on the server side
+from read-only back to read-write, reflect this change in default file mode
+(we had been leaving a file's mode read-only until the inode were reloaded).
+Allow setting of attribute back to ATTR_NORMAL (removing readonly dos attribute
+when archive dos attribute not set and we are changing mode back to writeable
+on server which does not support the Unix Extensions).  Remove read only dos
+attribute on chmod when adding any write permission (ie on any of
+user/group/other (not all of user/group/other ie  0222) when
+mounted to windows.  Add support for POSIX MkDir (slight performance
+enhancement and eliminates the network race between the mkdir and set 
+path info of the mode).
+
+
+Version 1.47
+------------
+Fix oops in list_del during mount caused by unaligned string.
+Fix file corruption which could occur on some large file
+copies caused by writepages page i/o completion bug.
+Seek to SEEK_END forces check for update of file size for non-cached
+files. Allow file size to be updated on remote extend of locally open,
+non-cached file.  Fix reconnect to newer Samba servers (or other servers
+which support the CIFS Unix/POSIX extensions) so that we again tell the
+server the Unix/POSIX cifs capabilities which we support (SetFSInfo).
+Add experimental support for new POSIX Open/Mkdir (which returns
+stat information on the open, and allows setting the mode).
+
+Version 1.46
+------------
+Support deep tree mounts.  Better support OS/2, Win9x (DOS) time stamps.
+Allow null user to be specified on mount ("username="). Do not return
+EINVAL on readdir when filldir fails due to overwritten blocksize
+(fixes FC problem).  Return error in rename 2nd attempt retry (ie report
+if rename by handle also fails, after rename by path fails, we were
+not reporting whether the retry worked or not). Fix NTLMv2 to
+work to Windows servers (mount with option "sec=ntlmv2").
+
+Version 1.45
+------------
+Do not time out lockw calls when using posix extensions. Do not
+time out requests if server still responding reasonably fast
+on requests on other threads.  Improve POSIX locking emulation,
+(lock cancel now works, and unlock of merged range works even
+to Windows servers now).  Fix oops on mount to lanman servers
+(win9x, os/2 etc.) when null password.  Do not send listxattr
+(SMB to query all EAs) if nouser_xattr specified.  Fix SE Linux
+problem (instantiate inodes/dentries in right order for readdir).
+
+Version 1.44
+------------
+Rewritten sessionsetup support, including support for legacy SMB
+session setup needed for OS/2 and older servers such as Windows 95 and 98.
+Fix oops on ls to OS/2 servers.  Add support for level 1 FindFirst
+so we can do search (ls etc.) to OS/2.  Do not send NTCreateX
+or recent levels of FindFirst unless server says it supports NT SMBs
+(instead use legacy equivalents from LANMAN dialect). Fix to allow
+NTLMv2 authentication support (now can use stronger password hashing
+on mount if corresponding /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags is set (0x4004).
+Allow override of global cifs security flags on mount via "sec=" option(s).
+
+Version 1.43
+------------
+POSIX locking to servers which support CIFS POSIX Extensions
+(disabled by default controlled by proc/fs/cifs/Experimental).
+Handle conversion of long share names (especially Asian languages)
+to Unicode during mount. Fix memory leak in sess struct on reconnect.
+Fix rare oops after acpi suspend.  Fix O_TRUNC opens to overwrite on
+cifs open which helps rare case when setpathinfo fails or server does
+not support it. 
+
+Version 1.42
+------------
+Fix slow oplock break when mounted to different servers at the same time and
+the tids match and we try to find matching fid on wrong server. Fix read
+looping when signing required by server (2.6.16 kernel only). Fix readdir
+vs. rename race which could cause each to hang. Return . and .. even
+if server does not.  Allow searches to skip first three entries and
+begin at any location. Fix oops in find_writeable_file.
+
+Version 1.41
+------------
+Fix NTLMv2 security (can be enabled in /proc/fs/cifs) so customers can
+configure stronger authentication.  Fix sfu symlinks so they can
+be followed (not just recognized).  Fix wraparound of bcc on
+read responses when buffer size over 64K and also fix wrap of
+max smb buffer size when CIFSMaxBufSize over 64K.  Fix oops in
+cifs_user_read and cifs_readpages (when EAGAIN on send of smb
+on socket is returned over and over).  Add POSIX (advisory) byte range
+locking support (requires server with newest CIFS UNIX Extensions
+to the protocol implemented). Slow down negprot slightly in port 139
+RFC1001 case to give session_init time on buggy servers.
+
+Version 1.40
+------------
+Use fsuid (fsgid) more consistently instead of uid (gid). Improve performance
+of readpages by eliminating one extra memcpy. Allow update of file size
+from remote server even if file is open for write as long as mount is
+directio.  Recognize share mode security and send NTLM encrypted password
+on tree connect if share mode negotiated.
+
+Version 1.39
+------------
+Defer close of a file handle slightly if pending writes depend on that handle
+(this reduces the EBADF bad file handle errors that can be logged under heavy
+stress on writes). Modify cifs Kconfig options to expose CONFIG_CIFS_STATS2 
+Fix SFU style symlinks and mknod needed for servers which do not support the
+CIFS Unix Extensions.  Fix setfacl/getfacl on bigendian. Timeout negative
+dentries so files that the client sees as deleted but that later get created
+on the server will be recognized.  Add client side permission check on setattr.
+Timeout stuck requests better (where server has never responded or sent corrupt
+responses)
+
+Version 1.38
+------------
+Fix tcp socket retransmission timeouts (e.g. on ENOSPACE from the socket)
+to be smaller at first (but increasing) so large write performance performance
+over GigE is better.  Do not hang thread on illegal byte range lock response
+from Windows (Windows can send an RFC1001 size which does not match smb size) by
+allowing an SMBs TCP length to be up to a few bytes longer than it should be.
+wsize and rsize can now be larger than negotiated buffer size if server
+supports large readx/writex, even when directio mount flag not specified.
+Write size will in many cases now be 16K instead of 4K which greatly helps
+file copy performance on lightly loaded networks.  Fix oops in dnotify
+when experimental config flag enabled. Make cifsFYI more granular.
+
+Version 1.37
+------------
+Fix readdir caching when unlink removes file in current search buffer,
+and this is followed by a rewind search to just before the deleted entry.
+Do not attempt to set ctime unless atime and/or mtime change requested
+(most servers throw it away anyway). Fix length check of received smbs
+to be more accurate. Fix big endian problem with mapchars mount option,
+and with a field returned by statfs.
+
+Version 1.36
+------------
+Add support for mounting to older pre-CIFS servers such as Windows9x and ME.
+For these older servers, add option for passing netbios name of server in
+on mount (servernetbiosname).  Add suspend support for power management, to
+avoid cifsd thread preventing software suspend from working.
+Add mount option for disabling the default behavior of sending byte range lock
+requests to the server (necessary for certain applications which break with
+mandatory lock behavior such as Evolution), and also mount option for
+requesting case insensitive matching for path based requests (requesting
+case sensitive is the default).
+
+Version 1.35
+------------
+Add writepage performance improvements.  Fix path name conversions
+for long filenames on mounts which were done with "mapchars" mount option
+specified.  Ensure multiplex ids do not collide.  Fix case in which 
+rmmod can oops if done soon after last unmount.  Fix truncated
+search (readdir) output when resume filename was a long filename.
+Fix filename conversion when mapchars mount option was specified and
+filename was a long filename.
+
+Version 1.34
+------------
+Fix error mapping of the TOO_MANY_LINKS (hardlinks) case.
+Do not oops if root user kills cifs oplock kernel thread or
+kills the cifsd thread (NB: killing the cifs kernel threads is not
+recommended, unmount and rmmod cifs will kill them when they are
+no longer needed).  Fix readdir to ASCII servers (ie older servers
+which do not support Unicode) and also require asterisk.
+Fix out of memory case in which data could be written one page
+off in the page cache.
+
+Version 1.33
+------------
+Fix caching problem, in which readdir of directory containing a file
+which was cached could cause the file's time stamp to be updated
+without invalidating the readahead data (so we could get stale
+file data on the client for that file even as the server copy changed).
+Cleanup response processing so cifsd can not loop when abnormally
+terminated.
+
+
+Version 1.32
+------------
+Fix oops in ls when Transact2 FindFirst (or FindNext) returns more than one
+transact response for an SMB request and search entry split across two frames.
+Add support for lsattr (getting ext2/ext3/reiserfs attr flags from the server)
+as new protocol extensions. Do not send Get/Set calls for POSIX ACLs
+unless server explicitly claims to support them in CIFS Unix extensions
+POSIX ACL capability bit. Fix packet signing when multiuser mounting with
+different users from the same client to the same server. Fix oops in
+cifs_close. Add mount option for remapping reserved characters in
+filenames (also allow recognizing files with created by SFU which have any
+of these seven reserved characters, except backslash, to be recognized).
+Fix invalid transact2 message (we were sometimes trying to interpret
+oplock breaks as SMB responses). Add ioctl for checking that the
+current uid matches the uid of the mounter (needed by umount.cifs).
+Reduce the number of large buffer allocations in cifs response processing
+(significantly reduces memory pressure under heavy stress with multiple
+processes accessing the same server at the same time).
+
+Version 1.31
+------------
+Fix updates of DOS attributes and time fields so that files on NT4 servers
+do not get marked delete on close. Display sizes of cifs buffer pools in
+cifs stats. Fix oops in unmount when cifsd thread being killed by 
+shutdown. Add generic readv/writev and aio support. Report inode numbers 
+consistently in readdir and lookup (when serverino mount option is
+specified use the inode number that the server reports - for both lookup
+and readdir, otherwise by default the locally generated inode number is used
+for inodes created in either path since servers are not always able to 
+provide unique inode numbers when exporting multiple volumes from under one
+sharename).
+
+Version 1.30
+------------
+Allow new nouser_xattr mount parm to disable xattr support for user namespace.
+Do not flag user_xattr mount parm in dmesg.  Retry failures setting file time  
+(mostly affects NT4 servers) by retry with handle based network operation. 
+Add new POSIX Query FS Info for returning statfs info more accurately.
+Handle passwords with multiple commas in them.
+
+Version 1.29
+------------
+Fix default mode in sysfs of cifs module parms.  Remove old readdir routine.
+Fix capabilities flags for large readx so as to allow reads larger than 64K.
+
+Version 1.28
+------------
+Add module init parm for large SMB buffer size (to allow it to be changed
+from its default of 16K) which is especially useful for large file copy
+when mounting with the directio mount option. Fix oops after 
+returning from mount when experimental ExtendedSecurity enabled and
+SpnegoNegotiated returning invalid error. Fix case to retry better when 
+peek returns from 1 to 3 bytes on socket which should have more data.
+Fixed path based calls (such as cifs lookup) to handle path names
+longer than 530 (now can handle PATH_MAX). Fix pass through authentication
+from Samba server to DC (Samba required dummy LM password).
+
+Version 1.27
+------------
+Turn off DNOTIFY (directory change notification support) by default
+(unless built with the experimental flag) to fix hang with KDE
+file browser. Fix DNOTIFY flag mappings.  Fix hang (in wait_event
+waiting on an SMB response) in SendReceive when session dies but
+reconnects quickly from another task.  Add module init  parms for
+minimum number of large and small network buffers in the buffer pools,
+and for the maximum number of simultaneous requests.
+
+Version 1.26
+------------
+Add setfacl support to allow setting of ACLs remotely to Samba 3.10 and later
+and other POSIX CIFS compliant servers.  Fix error mapping for getfacl 
+to EOPNOTSUPP when server does not support posix acls on the wire. Fix 
+improperly zeroed buffer in CIFS Unix extensions set times call. 
+
+Version 1.25
+------------
+Fix internationalization problem in cifs readdir with filenames that map to 
+longer UTF-8 strings than the string on the wire was in Unicode.  Add workaround
+for readdir to netapp servers. Fix search rewind (seek into readdir to return 
+non-consecutive entries).  Do not do readdir when server negotiates 
+buffer size to small to fit filename. Add support for reading POSIX ACLs from
+the server (add also acl and noacl mount options).
+
+Version 1.24
+------------
+Optionally allow using server side inode numbers, rather than client generated
+ones by specifying mount option "serverino" - this is required for some apps
+to work which double check hardlinked files and have persistent inode numbers.
+
+Version 1.23
+------------
+Multiple bigendian fixes. On little endian systems (for reconnect after
+network failure) fix tcp session reconnect code so we do not try first
+to reconnect on reverse of port 445. Treat reparse points (NTFS junctions)
+as directories rather than symlinks because we can do follow link on them.
+
+Version 1.22
+------------
+Add config option to enable XATTR (extended attribute) support, mapping
+xattr names in the "user." namespace space to SMB/CIFS EAs. Lots of
+minor fixes pointed out by the Stanford SWAT checker (mostly missing
+or out of order NULL pointer checks in little used error paths).
+
+Version 1.21
+------------
+Add new mount parm to control whether mode check (generic_permission) is done
+on the client.  If Unix extensions are enabled and the uids on the client
+and server do not match, client permission checks are meaningless on
+server uids that do not exist on the client (this does not affect the
+normal ACL check which occurs on the server).  Fix default uid
+on mknod to match create and mkdir. Add optional mount parm to allow
+override of the default uid behavior (in which the server sets the uid
+and gid of newly created files). Normally for network filesystem mounts
+user want the server to set the uid/gid on newly created files (rather than 
+using uid of the client processes you would in a local filesystem).
+
+Version 1.20
+------------
+Make transaction counts more consistent. Merge /proc/fs/cifs/SimultaneousOps
+info into /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData.  Fix oops in rare oops in readdir 
+(in build_wildcard_path_from_dentry).  Fix mknod to pass type field
+(block/char/fifo) properly.  Remove spurious mount warning log entry when
+credentials passed as mount argument. Set major/minor device number in
+inode for block and char devices when unix extensions enabled.
+
+Version 1.19
+------------
+Fix /proc/fs/cifs/Stats and DebugData display to handle larger
+amounts of return data. Properly limit requests to MAX_REQ (50
+is the usual maximum active multiplex SMB/CIFS requests per server).
+Do not kill cifsd (and thus hurt the other SMB session) when more than one
+session to the same server (but with different userids) exists and one
+of the two user's smb sessions is being removed while leaving the other.
+Do not loop reconnecting in cifsd demultiplex thread when admin
+kills the thread without going through unmount.
+
+Version 1.18
+------------
+Do not rename hardlinked files (since that should be a noop). Flush
+cached write behind data when reopening a file after session abend,
+except when already in write. Grab per socket sem during reconnect 
+to avoid oops in sendmsg if overlapping with reconnect. Do not
+reset cached inode file size on readdir for files open for write on 
+client.
+
+
+Version 1.17
+------------
+Update number of blocks in file so du command is happier (in Linux a fake
+blocksize of 512 is required for calculating number of blocks in inode).
+Fix prepare write of partial pages to read in data from server if possible.
+Fix race on tcpStatus field between unmount and reconnection code, causing
+cifsd process sometimes to hang around forever. Improve out of memory
+checks in cifs_filldir
+
+Version 1.16
+------------
+Fix incorrect file size in file handle based setattr on big endian hardware.
+Fix oops in build_path_from_dentry when out of memory.  Add checks for invalid
+and closing file structs in writepage/partialpagewrite.  Add statistics
+for each mounted share (new menuconfig option). Fix endianness problem in
+volume information displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData (only affects
+affects big endian architectures). Prevent renames while constructing
+path names for open, mkdir and rmdir.
+
+Version 1.15
+------------
+Change to mempools for alloc smb request buffers and multiplex structs
+to better handle low memory problems (and potential deadlocks).
+
+Version 1.14
+------------
+Fix incomplete listings of large directories on Samba servers when Unix
+extensions enabled.  Fix oops when smb_buffer can not be allocated. Fix
+rename deadlock when writing out dirty pages at same time.
+
+Version 1.13
+------------
+Fix open of files in which O_CREATE can cause the mode to change in
+some cases. Fix case in which retry of write overlaps file close.
+Fix PPC64 build error.  Reduce excessive stack usage in smb password
+hashing. Fix overwrite of Linux user's view of file mode to Windows servers.
+
+Version 1.12
+------------
+Fixes for large file copy, signal handling, socket retry, buffer
+allocation and low memory situations.
+
+Version 1.11
+------------
+Better port 139 support to Windows servers (RFC1001/RFC1002 Session_Initialize)
+also now allowing support for specifying client netbiosname.  NT4 support added.
+
+Version 1.10
+------------
+Fix reconnection (and certain failed mounts) to properly wake up the
+blocked users thread so it does not seem hung (in some cases was blocked
+until the cifs receive timeout expired). Fix spurious error logging
+to kernel log when application with open network files killed. 
+
+Version 1.09
+------------
+Fix /proc/fs module unload warning message (that could be logged
+to the kernel log). Fix intermittent failure in connectathon
+test7 (hardlink count not immediately refreshed in case in which
+inode metadata can be incorrectly kept cached when time near zero)
+
+Version 1.08
+------------
+Allow file_mode and dir_mode (specified at mount time) to be enforced
+locally (the server already enforced its own ACLs too) for servers
+that do not report the correct mode (do not support the 
+CIFS Unix Extensions).
+
+Version 1.07
+------------
+Fix some small memory leaks in some unmount error paths. Fix major leak
+of cache pages in readpages causing multiple read oriented stress
+testcases (including fsx, and even large file copy) to fail over time. 
+
+Version 1.06
+------------
+Send NTCreateX with ATTR_POSIX if Linux/Unix extensions negotiated with server.
+This allows files that differ only in case and improves performance of file
+creation and file open to such servers.  Fix semaphore conflict which causes 
+slow delete of open file to Samba (which unfortunately can cause an oplock
+break to self while vfs_unlink held i_sem) which can hang for 20 seconds.
+
+Version 1.05
+------------
+fixes to cifs_readpages for fsx test case
+
+Version 1.04
+------------
+Fix caching data integrity bug when extending file size especially when no
+oplock on file.  Fix spurious logging of valid already parsed mount options
+that are parsed outside of the cifs vfs such as nosuid.
+
+
+Version 1.03
+------------
+Connect to server when port number override not specified, and tcp port
+unitialized.  Reset search to restart at correct file when kernel routine
+filldir returns error during large directory searches (readdir). 
+
+Version 1.02
+------------
+Fix caching problem when files opened by multiple clients in which 
+page cache could contain stale data, and write through did
+not occur often enough while file was still open when read ahead
+(read oplock) not allowed.  Treat "sep=" when first mount option
+as an override of comma as the default separator between mount
+options. 
+
+Version 1.01
+------------
+Allow passwords longer than 16 bytes. Allow null password string.
+
+Version 1.00
+------------
+Gracefully clean up failed mounts when attempting to mount to servers such as
+Windows 98 that terminate tcp sessions during protocol negotiation.  Handle
+embedded commas in mount parsing of passwords.
+
+Version 0.99
+------------
+Invalidate local inode cached pages on oplock break and when last file
+instance is closed so that the client does not continue using stale local
+copy rather than later modified server copy of file.  Do not reconnect
+when server drops the tcp session prematurely before negotiate
+protocol response.  Fix oops in reopen_file when dentry freed.  Allow
+the support for CIFS Unix Extensions to be disabled via proc interface.
+
+Version 0.98
+------------
+Fix hang in commit_write during reconnection of open files under heavy load.
+Fix unload_nls oops in a mount failure path. Serialize writes to same socket
+which also fixes any possible races when cifs signatures are enabled in SMBs
+being sent out of signature sequence number order.    
+
+Version 0.97
+------------
+Fix byte range locking bug (endian problem) causing bad offset and
+length.
+
+Version 0.96
+------------
+Fix oops (in send_sig) caused by CIFS unmount code trying to
+wake up the demultiplex thread after it had exited. Do not log
+error on harmless oplock release of closed handle.
+
+Version 0.95
+------------
+Fix unsafe global variable usage and password hash failure on gcc 3.3.1
+Fix problem reconnecting secondary mounts to same server after session 
+failure.  Fix invalid dentry - race in mkdir when directory gets created
+by another client between the lookup and mkdir.
+ 
+Version 0.94
+------------
+Fix to list processing in reopen_files. Fix reconnection when server hung
+but tcpip session still alive.  Set proper timeout on socket read.
+
+Version 0.93
+------------
+Add missing mount options including iocharset.  SMP fixes in write and open. 
+Fix errors in reconnecting after TCP session failure.  Fix module unloading
+of default nls codepage
+
+Version 0.92
+------------
+Active smb transactions should never go negative (fix double FreeXid). Fix
+list processing in file routines. Check return code on kmalloc in open.
+Fix spinlock usage for SMP.
+
+Version 0.91
+------------
+Fix oops in reopen_files when invalid dentry. drop dentry on server rename 
+and on revalidate errors. Fix cases where pid is now tgid.  Fix return code
+on create hard link when server does not support them. 
+
+Version 0.90
+------------
+Fix scheduling while atomic error in getting inode info on newly created file. 
+Fix truncate of existing files opened with O_CREAT but not O_TRUNC set.
+
+Version 0.89
+------------
+Fix oops on write to dead tcp session. Remove error log write for case when file open
+O_CREAT but not O_EXCL
+
+Version 0.88
+------------
+Fix non-POSIX behavior on rename of open file and delete of open file by taking 
+advantage of trans2 SetFileInfo rename facility if available on target server.
+Retry on ENOSPC and EAGAIN socket errors.
+
+Version 0.87
+------------
+Fix oops on big endian readdir.  Set blksize to be even power of two (2**blkbits) to fix
+allocation size miscalculation. After oplock token lost do not read through
+cache. 
+
+Version 0.86
+------------
+Fix oops on empty file readahead.  Fix for file size handling for locally cached files.
+
+Version 0.85
+------------
+Fix oops in mkdir when server fails to return inode info. Fix oops in reopen_files
+during auto reconnection to server after server recovered from failure.
+
+Version 0.84
+------------
+Finish support for Linux 2.5 open/create changes, which removes the
+redundant NTCreate/QPathInfo/close that was sent during file create.
+Enable oplock by default. En