cel's patch series for 2.6.21

Announcing the availability of cel's NFS patch series for Linux 2.6.21 kernels. This patch series includes the following experimental features:

* Support for rpcbind protocol versions 3 and 4 in the Linux kernel
RPC bind client
* Some support for IPv6 addressing in the Linux NFS client and server
* Removal of the BKL from the Linux NFS and RPC clients
* Support for parsing mount option strings in the NFS client
instead of in the user-space mount command
* Support for separate client-side cache invalidation logic for
each version of the NFS protocol
* Part of a rewrite of the Linux NFS client and server XDR encoding
and decoding routines

Please see the release notes posted here for details:

http://oss.oracle.com/~cel/linux-2.6/2.6.21/release-notes.html

The patch series is also available in the "cel-pub-2.6.21" branch of cel's git repository on linux-nfs.org:

http://linux-nfs.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=cel-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=cel-pub-2.6.21

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