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From: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	davem@davemloft.net, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ncpfs: move net/ncpfs to drivers/staging/ncpfs
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:12:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+i2_Df3OBtDwXGAbUz0WT7+yt8=JeaVLMHhdg2puExFAqnDMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171114131426.GA4320@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:22:27AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> The Netware Core Protocol is a file system that talks to
>> Netware clients over IPX. Since IPX has been dead for many years
>> move the file system into staging for eventual interment.
>
> Should probably cc Petr on this ... (added)

Hi,
  NCP and ncpfs can actually run over UDP and TCP too, so there is
no hard IPX dependency.

Saying that, I think that ncpfs fully deserves being removed/obsoleted.
It is pretty hard to find hardware on which NetWare can still run, most
of distributions do not ship userspace tools anymore, and as far as
I can tell there are zero users.

So feel free to go ahead and do what you got to do...

Thanks,
Petr

P.S.: Sorry if you get it multiple times.  I could not figure out how to
make gmail app to not send text/html :-(  Hopefully now from computer
I can send it as text/plain.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-14 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-12 19:22 [PATCH net-next 0/2] retire IPX and Netware file system Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-12 19:22 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] ipx: move Novell IPX protocol support into staging Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-12 19:22 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] ncpfs: move net/ncpfs to drivers/staging/ncpfs Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-14 13:14   ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-11-14 17:12     ` Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2017-11-13 14:03 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] retire IPX and Netware file system Greg KH

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