[CIFS] Readdir fixes to allow search to start at arbitrary position

in directory

Also includes first part of fix to compensate for servers which forget
to return . and .. as well as updates to changelog and cifs readme.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index b2b4d0803761..0355003f4f0a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -511,6 +511,14 @@ LinuxExtensionsEnabled	If set to one then the client will attempt to
                         support and want to map the uid and gid fields 
                         to values supplied at mount (rather than the 
                         actual values, then set this to zero. (default 1)
+Experimental            When set to 1 used to enable certain experimental
+                        features (currently enables multipage writes
+                        when signing is enabled, the multipage write
+                        performance enhancement was disabled when
+                        signing turned on in case buffer was modified
+                        just before it was sent, also this flag will
+                        be used to use the new experimental sessionsetup
+                        code).
 
 These experimental features and tracing can be enabled by changing flags in 
 /proc/fs/cifs (after the cifs module has been installed or built into the