Steve French writes: > Tentatively merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next but would like more > feedback on other's thoughts on this. Getting more verbose error > information back on mount errors (to userspace returning something > more than a primitive small set of return codes, and a message logged > to dmesg) is critical, and this approach seems reasonable at first > glance but if there are better ways ... Yes more feedback would be reasonable. I've basically redone a barebone version of the missing fsinfo() call just for cifs. New patch version attached. Changes since v2: - add missing call to remove_proc_entry() (fix splat on rmmod)