Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750718AbWEKSMn (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2006 14:12:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750722AbWEKSMm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2006 14:12:42 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.234]:17927 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750709AbWEKSMl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2006 14:12:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JSrPhfP9ON58ReeEmveqx6DgXaQDgFmOzWdMX/J48a2VeU8TLM38vh/62Lj6EVwpUWj0Rnx3zRnCETstySBTczI+dzbN0ycckzS4bTSA0prcVArEoxWPfqcRYE1+qtbl+VoGUuzU2hRclAjgZgfaDq4zi0ZqJGxSS4H/aVTiDqg= Message-ID: <9a8748490605111112h8fde257s3de1128ed95577b5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:12:41 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree Cc: akpm@osdl.org, sfrench@us.ibm.com, stable@kernel.org, urban@teststation.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200605110717.k4B7HuVW006999@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200605110717.k4B7HuVW006999@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1207 Lines: 39 On 5/11/06, 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 > > 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? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/