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

[John Kelly]

On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:40:34 -0700, Tom Rini
<trini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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
>> <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

If every hypothetical user has to die off before old features are
culled from the kernel, it will become a mountain of old stinking
garbage.


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

Then let them maintain it out of tree.  People have to maintain new
features out of tree, why not old too?


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