Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/11/06, akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > The patch titled
> >
> >      deprecate smbfs in favour of cifs
> >
> > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> >
> >      deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch
> >
> > See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
> > out what to do about this
> >
> >
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> >
> > smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer.  Change it to shout at the user on
> > the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS.
> >
> > Come November we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens.
> >
> [snip]
> 
> Perhaps an addition to  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt  is
> also in order?

That seems a bit duplicative, so I didn't bother.

> Something noting that it will be marked as broken in November and go
> away some 12 - 18 months after that perhaps?

We'll see.  We'd like to remove it as early as poss, of course.  But right
now, I don't know when that'll be.

The personal challenge is to remove it before Greg gets his devfs-removal
patches in ;)