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

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

Hi Ahelenia,

On 12/17/20 6:59 PM, Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:56:00PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Ahelenia,
>>
>> Please, could you append that into the first paragraph?
> Sure, see updated scissor-patch below.
> 
> I also broke the line above on the comma, because the alternative would
> be either

Thanks!

>   is a network filesystem that supports the NCP protocol, used by
>   Novell NetWare. It was removed from the kernel in 4.17.
> which sucks for reasons I assume obvious, or
>   is a network filesystem that supports the NCP protocol, used by
>   Novell NetWare.
>   It was removed from the kernel in 4.17.
> which is three lines anyway.
> 
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] filesystems.5: note ncpfs removal from kernel
> 
> 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>

Patch applied.
Thanks for the detailed commit msg!

Cheers,

Alex

> ---
>  man5/filesystems.5 | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/filesystems.5 b/man5/filesystems.5
> index 6ec2de9f0..71be05230 100644
> --- a/man5/filesystems.5
> +++ b/man5/filesystems.5
> @@ -152,8 +152,9 @@ filenames can be no longer than 8 characters, followed by an
>  optional period and 3 character extension.
>  .TP
>  .B ncpfs
> -is a network filesystem that supports the NCP protocol, used by
> -Novell NetWare.
> +is a network filesystem that supports the NCP protocol,
> +used by Novell NetWare.
> +It was was removed from the kernel in 4.17.
>  .IP
>  To use
>  .BR ncpfs ,
> 

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