"Jesper Juhl" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 5/11/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> >
> > 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?
That seems a bit duplicative, so I didn't bother.
> Something noting that it will be marked as broken in November and go
> away some 12 - 18 months after that perhaps?
We'll see. We'd like to remove it as early as poss, of course. But right
now, I don't know when that'll be.
The personal challenge is to remove it before Greg gets his devfs-removal
patches in ;)
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