Re: [PATCH 2/2] filesystems.5: note ncpfs removal from kernel

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Ahelenia,

Thanks for the patch!

Could you remove the '-rc4' part from the version?
So that we show the first stable version where it was removed.

Thanks,

Alex


On 12/17/20 4:27 PM, Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> Relevant Linux commits:
>  * moved to staging in 1bb8155080c652c4853e6228f8f0d262b3049699
>    (describe: v4.15-rc1-129-g1bb8155080c6) in Nov 2017,
>    described as "broken" and "obsolete"
>  * purged in bd32895c750bcd2b511bf93917bf7ae723e3d0b6
>    (describe: v4.17-rc3-1010-gbd32895c750b) in Jun 2018,
>    "since no one has complained or even noticed it was gone"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
> ---
>  man5/filesystems.5 | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/filesystems.5 b/man5/filesystems.5
> index 6ec2de9f0..1eda05b22 100644
> --- a/man5/filesystems.5
> +++ b/man5/filesystems.5
> @@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ To use
>  you need special programs, which can be found at
>  .UR ftp://ftp.gwdg.de\:/pub\:/linux\:/misc\:/ncpfs
>  .UE .
> +.IP
> +The
> +.B ncpfs
> +filesystem was removed from the kernel in 4.17-rc4.
>  .TP
>  .B nfs
>  is the network filesystem used to access disks located on remote computers.
> 

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Alejandro Colomar
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