From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751042AbVHUU6X (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:58:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751064AbVHUU6X (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:58:23 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:9416 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbVHUU6W (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:58:22 -0400 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem References: <20050821143457.GA5726@stusta.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 21 Aug 2005 22:26:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050821143457.GA5726@stusta.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk writes: > Since Urban Widmark was not active for some time, and I didn't have any > success trying to reach him, it seems we need a new maintainer for the > smb filesystem in the Linux kernel. > > Is there anyone who both feels qualified and wants to become the new > maintainer? One way would be to just deprecate and later drop it and let people use cifs instead which is maintained. It only doesn't work with some extremly old smb servers which are probably not very numerous anymore. -Andi