From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f68.google.com ([209.85.214.68]:53670 "EHLO mail-it0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754291AbdKNRMw (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:12:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171114131426.GA4320@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20171112192227.19997-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> <20171112192227.19997-3-sthemmin@microsoft.com> <20171114131426.GA4320@bombadil.infradead.org> From: Petr Vandrovec Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:12:51 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ncpfs: move net/ncpfs to drivers/staging/ncpfs To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Al Viro , davem@davemloft.net, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Matthew Wilcox 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.