From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
samba@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Urban.Widmark@enlight.net, Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:06:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050822010606.GA20833@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050821124657.22f1a095.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:46:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > Since Urban Widmark was not active for some time, and I didn't have any
> > success trying to reach him, it seems we need a new maintainer for the
> > smb filesystem in the Linux kernel.
> >
> > Is there anyone who both feels qualified and wants to become the new
> > maintainer?
>
> Yes, it's a poor situation. That driver seems to have quite a few problems.
>
> I was hoping that by now we could simply deprecate smbfs and tell people to
> use CIFS, but I'm not sure that CIFS is ready for that yet.
>
> Steve, what's your take? Does CIFS offer a 100% superset of smbfs
> capabilities?
A while ago, we disabled it in Fedora kernels, and told people
"Use CIFS instead". There were a whole range of Windows variants
that it couldn't talk to. Maybe the situation has improved since,
but at the time, it was bad enough that we had to switch smbfs back on.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-22 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-21 14:34 New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem Adrian Bunk
2005-08-21 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22 1:06 ` Dave Jones [this message]
[not found] ` <OF200CE886.6A353FBA-ON87257065.0005812F-86257065.0005B594@us.ibm.com>
2005-08-22 1:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-22 3:09 ` [Samba] " Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2005-08-23 1:11 ` Ian Kent
2005-08-23 15:08 ` Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2005-08-24 0:47 ` Ian Kent
[not found] <20050821143457.GA5726@stusta.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-21 20:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-22 0:48 ` Steven Rostedt
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2005-08-24 3:39 Steve French
2005-08-24 4:19 ` Hal Wigoda
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