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From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, sfrench@us.ibm.com, stable@kernel.org,
	urban@teststation.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:12:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490605111112h8fde257s3de1128ed95577b5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605110717.k4B7HuVW006999@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

On 5/11/06, akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org> 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@osdl.org>
>
> 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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-11 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200605110717.k4B7HuVW006999@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-05-11 17:51 ` + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree Dave Jones
2006-05-12 15:03   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-12 16:19     ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 16:24       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-12 16:31         ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 16:40           ` Tom Rini
2006-05-12 16:48             ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-12 16:52             ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 16:41           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-12 16:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 17:10             ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 17:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 18:13             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-05-14  3:11             ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-14  4:37               ` Dave Jones
2006-05-12 17:42           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-12 19:50             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-05-12 16:36       ` grundig
2006-05-15 10:01         ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-11 18:12 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2006-05-11 18:27   ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 18:57     ` John Kelly

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