4 files changed, 32 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index c9c4108469c3..8855fd41cfa8 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -1587,9 +1587,10 @@ config CIFS
           PC operating systems.  The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 
           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). Currently
-          you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
-          such as Windows 9x and OS/2.
+          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.
 
           The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
           network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 
@@ -1600,7 +1601,7 @@ config CIFS
           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 2003 servers from this machine, say Y.
+          to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
 
 config CIFS_STATS
         bool "CIFS statistics"
@@ -1609,8 +1610,22 @@ config CIFS_STATS
           Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
           mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
 
+config CIFS_STATS2
+        bool "CIFS extended statistics"
+        depends on CIFS_STATS
+        help
+          Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
+          request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
+          allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
+          value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
+          These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
+          and memory utilization.
+
+          Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
+          or tuning, say N.
+
 config CIFS_XATTR
-        bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+        bool "CIFS extended attributes"
         depends on CIFS
         help
           Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
@@ -1622,11 +1637,11 @@ config CIFS_XATTR
           prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
           (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
           this time.
-                                                                                                    
+
           If unsure, say N.
 
 config CIFS_POSIX
-        bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+        bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
         depends on CIFS_XATTR
         help
           Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
@@ -1641,8 +1656,15 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
           bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
           depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
           help
-            Enables cifs features under testing. These features
-            are highly experimental.  If unsure, say N.
+            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.
 
 config NCP_FS
         tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
index d301149b1bb0..1b73f4f4c5ce 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
@@ -242,11 +242,11 @@ extern int CIFSSMBWrite2(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
                         const int netfid, const unsigned int count,
                         const __u64 offset, unsigned int *nbytes, 
                         struct kvec *iov, const int nvec, const int long_op);
+#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
 extern int CIFSGetSrvInodeNumber(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
                         const unsigned char *searchName, __u64 * inode_number,
                         const struct nls_table *nls_codepage, 
                         int remap_special_chars);
-#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
 extern int cifs_convertUCSpath(char *target, const __le16 *source, int maxlen,
                         const struct nls_table * codepage);
 extern int cifsConvertToUCS(__le16 * target, const char *source, int maxlen,
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 9312bfc56682..a53c596e1082 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -2959,7 +2959,6 @@ CIFSFindClose(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon, const __u16 searchHandle
         return rc;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
 int
 CIFSGetSrvInodeNumber(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
                 const unsigned char *searchName,
@@ -3053,7 +3052,6 @@ GetInodeNumOut:
                 goto GetInodeNumberRetry;
         return rc;
 }
-#endif /* CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
 
 int
 CIFSGetDFSRefer(const int xid, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index 912d401600f6..923d071163b2 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -283,7 +283,6 @@ int cifs_get_inode_info(struct inode **pinode,
                            there Windows server or network appliances for which
                            IndexNumber field is not guaranteed unique? */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL         
                         if (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SERVER_INUM){
                                 int rc1 = 0;
                                 __u64 inode_num;
@@ -299,7 +298,6 @@ int cifs_get_inode_info(struct inode **pinode,
                                 } else /* do we need cast or hash to ino? */
                                         (*pinode)->i_ino = inode_num;
                         } /* else ino incremented to unique num in new_inode*/
-#endif /* CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
                         insert_inode_hash(*pinode);
                 }
                 inode = *pinode;