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

[Jesper Juhl]

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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