From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
jak@isp2dial.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 00:37:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060514043755.GA2984@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060513201144.4891ef17.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:11:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
I'm surprised that other vendors are actually still shipping it[1].
(Not only that, some vendors have actually been sitting on smbfs
patches for well over a year).
Given that it's clearly abandoned, moving to cifs seems to be the
only sensible thing to do, and anything that can be done to ease
that transition should be done.
Dave
[1] Especially after the recent security problem where smbfs stayed
vulnerable for a week or so after CIFS got fixed. How many bad guys
thought "Hmm, wonder if smbfs has the same bug" in that week?
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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
2006-05-14 4:37 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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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