Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750702AbWELQww (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 12:52:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750721AbWELQwv (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 12:52:51 -0400 Received: from jacks.isp2dial.com ([64.142.120.55]:1028 "EHLO jacks.isp2dial.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702AbWELQwv (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 12:52:51 -0400 From: John Kelly To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:52:55 -0400 Message-ID: <200605121652.k4CGqniH005122@isp2dial.com> References: <200605110717.k4B7HuVW006999@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20060511175143.GH25646@redhat.com> <200605121619.k4CGJCtR004972@isp2dial.com> <200605121630.k4CGUuiU005025@isp2dial.com> <20060512164034.GK7646@smtp.west.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20060512164034.GK7646@smtp.west.cox.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hard2Crack: 0.001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1395 Lines: 39 On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:40:34 -0700, Tom Rini 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 >> 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? - 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/