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

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On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:31:02PM -0400, John Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:24:40 -0400 (EDT), Steven Rostedt
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >> >Sorry for falling in late but we can't do that.
> >> >Win 98 (95 too?) shared can not be mounted with CIFS, it requires SMBFS.
> 
> >> W98?  He's dead, Jim.
> 
> >huh, my wife has a laptop that she still uses that has w98 on it. And I do
> >use smbfs to sometimes communicate with it.
> 
> Users who need vintage features can use vintage kernels.  They haven't
> been pulled off the market.

Having a shiny new storage box in my house that just might need to talk
with old laptops and new laptops and so on doesn't exactly jive with
that.

Of course perhaps this will cause someone who does care about smbfs to
setup up to the plate and maintain it.

-- 
Tom Rini
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