diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 74ab165fc646..4a3ca0e5ca24 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -704,18 +704,6 @@ the start of smb requests and responses can be enabled via:
 
 	echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/traceSMB
 
-Two other experimental features are under development. To test these
-requires enabling CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
-
-	cifsacl support needed to retrieve approximated mode bits based on
-		the contents on the CIFS ACL.
-
-	lease support: cifs will check the oplock state before calling into
-	the vfs to see if we can grant a lease on a file.
-
-	DNOTIFY fcntl: needed for support of directory change 
-			    notification and perhaps later for file leases)
-
 Per share (per client mount) statistics are available in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
 if the kernel was configured with cifs statistics enabled.  The statistics
 represent the number of successful (ie non-zero return code from the server) 
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
index 34bbd5cf46d0..da7a4923783f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
@@ -304,12 +304,13 @@ extern int CIFSSMBUnixQuerySymLink(const int xid,
 			struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 			const unsigned char *searchName, char **syminfo,
 			const struct nls_table *nls_codepage);
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_SYMLINK_EXPERIMENTAL
 extern int CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo(const int xid,
 			struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 			const unsigned char *searchName,
 			char *symlinkinfo, const int buflen, __u16 fid,
 			const struct nls_table *nls_codepage);
-
+#endif /* temporarily unused until cifs_symlink fixed */
 extern int CIFSSMBOpen(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 			const char *fileName, const int disposition,
 			const int access_flags, const int omode,
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 5630282f2821..ae5e451a0d08 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -2516,7 +2516,17 @@ CIFSSMBUnixQuerySymLink(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 	return rc;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_SYMLINK_EXPERIMENTAL
+/*
+ *	Recent Windows versions now create symlinks more frequently
+ *	and they use the "reparse point" mechanism below.  We can of course
+ *	do symlinks nicely to Samba and other servers which support the
+ *	CIFS Unix Extensions and we can also do SFU symlinks and "client only"
+ *	"MF" symlinks optionally, but for recent Windows we really need to
+ *	reenable the code below and fix the cifs_symlink callers to handle this.
+ *	In the interim this code has been moved to its own config option so
+ *	it is not compiled in by default until callers fixed up and more tested.
+ */
 int
 CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 			const unsigned char *searchName,
@@ -2618,7 +2628,7 @@ CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 
 	return rc;
 }
-#endif /* CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
+#endif /* CIFS_SYMLINK_EXPERIMENTAL */ /* BB temporarily unused */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX