From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: jak@isp2dial.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 20:11:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060513201144.4891ef17.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605120949060.3866@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> The cost of keeping a filesystem is not normally very high. The way
> filesystems in particular get deprecated is if they have really serious
> problems, and nobody ends up being able or willing to fix them at all, and
> you _can_ migrate away.
That's the case with smbfs and cifs, soon.
> But if we're talking about win98, it probably
> still actually has a pretty big user base, and most of the machines that
> run it probably really cannot upgrade.
cifs doesn't support w98 and w95 properly yet. Steve's working on
it, and we hope to have that in place for 2.6.18.
So at this stage, 2.6.18 still appears to be a good time to start pushing
people toward cifs, and December looks like an appropriate time to mark
smbfs as broken. Subject to, of course, feedback-from-the-field.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-14 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200605110717.k4B7HuVW006999@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-05-11 17:51 ` + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree Dave Jones
2006-05-12 15:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-12 16:19 ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 16:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-12 16:31 ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 16:40 ` Tom Rini
2006-05-12 16:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-12 16:52 ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 16:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-12 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 17:10 ` John Kelly
2006-05-12 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 18:13 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-05-14 3:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-05-14 4:37 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-12 17:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-12 19:50 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-05-12 16:36 ` grundig
2006-05-15 10:01 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-11 18:12 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-11 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 18:57 ` John Kelly
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