Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 18:10:45 EST


On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 22:26 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Since Urban Widmark was not active for some time, and I didn't have any
> > success trying to reach him, it seems we need a new maintainer for the
> > smb filesystem in the Linux kernel.
> >
> > Is there anyone who both feels qualified and wants to become the new
> > maintainer?
>
> One way would be to just deprecate and later drop it and let people
> use cifs instead which is maintained. It only doesn't work with
> some extremly old smb servers which are probably not very numerous
> anymore.

Or you could deprecate it and later drop it and when people complain,
you just found your new maintainer :-)

-- Steve


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