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Merge tag 'v6.8-rc-part1-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6
Pull smb client fixes from Steve French:
"Various smb client fixes, most related to better handling special file
types:
- Improve handling of special file types:
- performance improvement (better compounding and better caching
of readdir entries that are reparse points)
- extend support for creating special files (sockets, fifos,
block/char devices)
- fix renaming and hardlinking of reparse points
- extend support for creating symlinks with IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK
- Multichannel logging improvement
- Exception handling fix
- Minor cleanups"
* tag 'v6.8-rc-part1-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: update internal module version number for cifs.ko
cifs: remove unneeded return statement
cifs: make cifs_chan_update_iface() a void function
cifs: delete unnecessary NULL checks in cifs_chan_update_iface()
cifs: get rid of dup length check in parse_reparse_point()
smb: client: stop revalidating reparse points unnecessarily
cifs: Pass unbyteswapped eof value into SMB2_set_eof()
smb3: Improve exception handling in allocate_mr_list()
cifs: fix in logging in cifs_chan_update_iface
smb: client: handle special files and symlinks in SMB3 POSIX
smb: client: cleanup smb2_query_reparse_point()
smb: client: allow creating symlinks via reparse points
smb: client: fix hardlinking of reparse points
smb: client: fix renaming of reparse points
smb: client: optimise reparse point querying
smb: client: allow creating special files via reparse points
smb: client: extend smb2_compound_op() to accept more commands
smb: client: Fix minor whitespace errors and warnings