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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 2 Mar 2022 16:50:47 -0800
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Subject: Re: Possible regression: unable to mount CIFS 1.0 shares from older
 machines since 76a3c92ec9e0668e4cd0e9ff1782eb68f61a179c
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc:     Davyd McColl <davydm@gmail.com>, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
        ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>,
        CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "regressions@lists.linux.dev" <regressions@lists.linux.dev>
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 10:58 PM Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> Thx for the update. I pointed Linus towards this thread two times now,
> but he didn't comment on it afaics. CCing him now, maybe that will to
> the trick.

So I have to admit that I think it's a 20+ year old legacy and
insecure protocol that nobody should be using.

When the maintainer can't really even test it, and it really has been
deprecated that long, I get the feeling that somebody who wants it to
be maintained will need to do that job himself.

This seems to be a _very_ niche thing, possibly legacy museum style
equipment, and maybe using an older kernel ends up being the answer if
nobody steps up and maintains it as an external patch.

             Linus