Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Thu May 11 2006 - 14:12:09 EST


On 5/11/06, akpm@xxxxxxxx <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

The patch titled

deprecate smbfs in favour of cifs

has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is

deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch

See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>

smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer. Change it to shout at the user on
the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS.

Come November we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens.

[snip]

Perhaps an addition to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt is
also in order?

Something noting that it will be marked as broken in November and go
away some 12 - 18 months after that perhaps?


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