diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 0742c269ef1231a983a3553d7f88fe947791f0fd..b45d38b8911678fa7410a3dfe0b2a83f4f16181b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -981,10 +981,10 @@ init_cifs(void)
 	int rc = 0;
 	cifs_proc_init();
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cifs_tcp_ses_list);
-#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DNOTIFY_EXPERIMENTAL /* unused temporarily */
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&GlobalDnotifyReqList);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&GlobalDnotifyRsp_Q);
-#endif
+#endif /* was needed for dnotify, and will be needed for inotify when VFS fix */
 /*
  *  Initialize Global counters
  */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
index a5d1106fcbde82ea8b5ab5f61de9a29dc72148d2..6e211b67b2736b5f1dcf2328a36d5941d52bf9af 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
@@ -780,10 +780,12 @@ GLOBAL_EXTERN spinlock_t		cifs_tcp_ses_lock;
  */
 GLOBAL_EXTERN spinlock_t	cifs_file_list_lock;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DNOTIFY_EXPERIMENTAL /* unused temporarily */
 /* Outstanding dir notify requests */
 GLOBAL_EXTERN struct list_head GlobalDnotifyReqList;
 /* DirNotify response queue */
 GLOBAL_EXTERN struct list_head GlobalDnotifyRsp_Q;
+#endif /* was needed for dnotify, and will be needed for inotify when VFS fix */
 
 /*
  * Global transaction id (XID) information
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
index 8096f27ad9a86405731bf7edcc35b1e66fbe5e4d..34bbd5cf46d0dab3fce327dff632e53d9eb138bc 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
@@ -386,6 +386,12 @@ extern int calc_seckey(struct cifsSesInfo *);
 extern void calc_lanman_hash(const char *password, const char *cryptkey,
 				bool encrypt, char *lnm_session_key);
 #endif /* CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DNOTIFY_EXPERIMENTAL /* unused temporarily */
+extern int CIFSSMBNotify(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
+			const int notify_subdirs, const __u16 netfid,
+			__u32 filter, struct file *file, int multishot,
+			const struct nls_table *nls_codepage);
+#endif /* was needed for dnotify, and will be needed for inotify when VFS fix */
 extern int CIFSSMBCopy(int xid,
 			struct cifsTconInfo *source_tcon,
 			const char *fromName,
@@ -393,10 +399,6 @@ extern int CIFSSMBCopy(int xid,
 			const char *toName, const int flags,
 			const struct nls_table *nls_codepage,
 			int remap_special_chars);
-extern int CIFSSMBNotify(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
-			const int notify_subdirs, const __u16 netfid,
-			__u32 filter, struct file *file, int multishot,
-			const struct nls_table *nls_codepage);
 extern ssize_t CIFSSMBQAllEAs(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 			const unsigned char *searchName,
 			const unsigned char *ea_name, char *EAData,
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index df959bae67281597a2c1b4ce643eb3893b0e6ee2..5630282f28218512a45d6b1a0c361f6f08200088 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -5418,79 +5418,6 @@ setPermsRetry:
 	return rc;
 }
 
-int CIFSSMBNotify(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
-		  const int notify_subdirs, const __u16 netfid,
-		  __u32 filter, struct file *pfile, int multishot,
-		  const struct nls_table *nls_codepage)
-{
-	int rc = 0;
-	struct smb_com_transaction_change_notify_req *pSMB = NULL;
-	struct smb_com_ntransaction_change_notify_rsp *pSMBr = NULL;
-	struct dir_notify_req *dnotify_req;
-	int bytes_returned;
-
-	cFYI(1, "In CIFSSMBNotify for file handle %d", (int)netfid);
-	rc = smb_init(SMB_COM_NT_TRANSACT, 23, tcon, (void **) &pSMB,
-		      (void **) &pSMBr);
-	if (rc)
-		return rc;
-
-	pSMB->TotalParameterCount = 0 ;
-	pSMB->TotalDataCount = 0;
-	pSMB->MaxParameterCount = cpu_to_le32(2);
-	/* BB find exact data count max from sess structure BB */
-	pSMB->MaxDataCount = 0; /* same in little endian or be */
-/* BB VERIFY verify which is correct for above BB */
-	pSMB->MaxDataCount = cpu_to_le32((tcon->ses->server->maxBuf -
-					     MAX_CIFS_HDR_SIZE) & 0xFFFFFF00);
-
-	pSMB->MaxSetupCount = 4;
-	pSMB->Reserved = 0;
-	pSMB->ParameterOffset = 0;
-	pSMB->DataCount = 0;
-	pSMB->DataOffset = 0;
-	pSMB->SetupCount = 4; /* single byte does not need le conversion */
-	pSMB->SubCommand = cpu_to_le16(NT_TRANSACT_NOTIFY_CHANGE);
-	pSMB->ParameterCount = pSMB->TotalParameterCount;
-	if (notify_subdirs)
-		pSMB->WatchTree = 1; /* one byte - no le conversion needed */
-	pSMB->Reserved2 = 0;
-	pSMB->CompletionFilter = cpu_to_le32(filter);
-	pSMB->Fid = netfid; /* file handle always le */
-	pSMB->ByteCount = 0;
-
-	rc = SendReceive(xid, tcon->ses, (struct smb_hdr *) pSMB,
-			 (struct smb_hdr *)pSMBr, &bytes_returned,
-			 CIFS_ASYNC_OP);
-	if (rc) {
-		cFYI(1, "Error in Notify = %d", rc);
-	} else {
-		/* Add file to outstanding requests */
-		/* BB change to kmem cache alloc */
-		dnotify_req = kmalloc(
-						sizeof(struct dir_notify_req),
-						 GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (dnotify_req) {
-			dnotify_req->Pid = pSMB->hdr.Pid;
-			dnotify_req->PidHigh = pSMB->hdr.PidHigh;
-			dnotify_req->Mid = pSMB->hdr.Mid;
-			dnotify_req->Tid = pSMB->hdr.Tid;
-			dnotify_req->Uid = pSMB->hdr.Uid;
-			dnotify_req->netfid = netfid;
-			dnotify_req->pfile = pfile;
-			dnotify_req->filter = filter;
-			dnotify_req->multishot = multishot;
-			spin_lock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
-			list_add_tail(&dnotify_req->lhead,
-					&GlobalDnotifyReqList);
-			spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
-		} else
-			rc = -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
-	return rc;
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR
 /*
  * Do a path-based QUERY_ALL_EAS call and parse the result. This is a common
@@ -5787,5 +5714,99 @@ SetEARetry:
 
 	return rc;
 }
-
 #endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DNOTIFY_EXPERIMENTAL /* BB unused temporarily */
+/*
+ *	Years ago the kernel added a "dnotify" function for Samba server,
+ *	to allow network clients (such as Windows) to display updated
+ *	lists of files in directory listings automatically when
+ *	files are added by one user when another user has the
+ *	same directory open on their desktop.  The Linux cifs kernel
+ *	client hooked into the kernel side of this interface for
+ *	the same reason, but ironically when the VFS moved from
+ *	"dnotify" to "inotify" it became harder to plug in Linux
+ *	network file system clients (the most obvious use case
+ *	for notify interfaces is when multiple users can update
+ *	the contents of the same directory - exactly what network
+ *	file systems can do) although the server (Samba) could
+ *	still use it.  For the short term we leave the worker
+ *	function ifdeffed out (below) until inotify is fixed
+ *	in the VFS to make it easier to plug in network file
+ *	system clients.  If inotify turns out to be permanently
+ *	incompatible for network fs clients, we could instead simply
+ *	expose this config flag by adding a future cifs (and smb2) notify ioctl.
+ */
+int CIFSSMBNotify(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
+		  const int notify_subdirs, const __u16 netfid,
+		  __u32 filter, struct file *pfile, int multishot,
+		  const struct nls_table *nls_codepage)
+{
+	int rc = 0;
+	struct smb_com_transaction_change_notify_req *pSMB = NULL;
+	struct smb_com_ntransaction_change_notify_rsp *pSMBr = NULL;
+	struct dir_notify_req *dnotify_req;
+	int bytes_returned;
+
+	cFYI(1, "In CIFSSMBNotify for file handle %d", (int)netfid);
+	rc = smb_init(SMB_COM_NT_TRANSACT, 23, tcon, (void **) &pSMB,
+		      (void **) &pSMBr);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
+	pSMB->TotalParameterCount = 0 ;
+	pSMB->TotalDataCount = 0;
+	pSMB->MaxParameterCount = cpu_to_le32(2);
+	/* BB find exact data count max from sess structure BB */
+	pSMB->MaxDataCount = 0; /* same in little endian or be */
+/* BB VERIFY verify which is correct for above BB */
+	pSMB->MaxDataCount = cpu_to_le32((tcon->ses->server->maxBuf -
+					     MAX_CIFS_HDR_SIZE) & 0xFFFFFF00);
+
+	pSMB->MaxSetupCount = 4;
+	pSMB->Reserved = 0;
+	pSMB->ParameterOffset = 0;
+	pSMB->DataCount = 0;
+	pSMB->DataOffset = 0;
+	pSMB->SetupCount = 4; /* single byte does not need le conversion */
+	pSMB->SubCommand = cpu_to_le16(NT_TRANSACT_NOTIFY_CHANGE);
+	pSMB->ParameterCount = pSMB->TotalParameterCount;
+	if (notify_subdirs)
+		pSMB->WatchTree = 1; /* one byte - no le conversion needed */
+	pSMB->Reserved2 = 0;
+	pSMB->CompletionFilter = cpu_to_le32(filter);
+	pSMB->Fid = netfid; /* file handle always le */
+	pSMB->ByteCount = 0;
+
+	rc = SendReceive(xid, tcon->ses, (struct smb_hdr *) pSMB,
+			 (struct smb_hdr *)pSMBr, &bytes_returned,
+			 CIFS_ASYNC_OP);
+	if (rc) {
+		cFYI(1, "Error in Notify = %d", rc);
+	} else {
+		/* Add file to outstanding requests */
+		/* BB change to kmem cache alloc */
+		dnotify_req = kmalloc(
+						sizeof(struct dir_notify_req),
+						 GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (dnotify_req) {
+			dnotify_req->Pid = pSMB->hdr.Pid;
+			dnotify_req->PidHigh = pSMB->hdr.PidHigh;
+			dnotify_req->Mid = pSMB->hdr.Mid;
+			dnotify_req->Tid = pSMB->hdr.Tid;
+			dnotify_req->Uid = pSMB->hdr.Uid;
+			dnotify_req->netfid = netfid;
+			dnotify_req->pfile = pfile;
+			dnotify_req->filter = filter;
+			dnotify_req->multishot = multishot;
+			spin_lock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
+			list_add_tail(&dnotify_req->lhead,
+					&GlobalDnotifyReqList);
+			spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
+		} else
+			rc = -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
+	return rc;
+}
+#endif /* was needed for dnotify, and will be needed for inotify when VFS fix */