Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6

[linux-drm-fsl-dcu.git] / fs / Kconfig

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 488521ed9e9bdfd2e000263e626aa643aebe3e81..a722b5a3f752f1701c4f172fb1ac94dd8c576836 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -1864,20 +1864,14 @@ config CIFS
          file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4  
          and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
          server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
-         support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 
-         You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
-         such as OS/2 and DOS.
+         support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
 
          The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
-         network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 
+         network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
          including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
          session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
-         packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 
-         and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
-         cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
-         smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
-         and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need 
-         to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
+         packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. 
+         If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
 
 config CIFS_STATS
         bool "CIFS statistics"
@@ -1970,14 +1964,13 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
          depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
          help
            Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
-           experimental and currently include support for writepages
-           (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
-           change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
-           improvements.  Some also depend on setting at runtime the
-           pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
-           default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
-
-           If unsure, say N.
+           experimental and currently include DFS support and directory 
+           change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
+           mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
+           and uid remapping.  Some of these features also may depend on 
+           setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
+           (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README 
+           for more details.  If unsure, say N.
 
 config CIFS_UPCALL
          bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"