From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: bring back IPX and NCPFS, please! Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 17:09:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20181109160903.GA1277@1wt.eu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes C. Schulz" Return-path: Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:41245 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728008AbeKJBuS (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2018 20:50:18 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:23:27PM +0100, Johannes C. Schulz wrote: > Hello all! > > I like to please you to bring back IPX and NCPFS modules to the kernel. > Whyever my admins using Novell-shares on our network which I'm not be > able to use anymore - I'm forced to use cifs instead (and the admins > will kill the cifs-shares in some time), because my kernel (4.18) does > not have support for ncpfs anymore. > Maybe we at my work are not enough people that just for us this > modules will come back, but maybe out there are other people. > Thank you. Well, like any code, it requires time and skills. If nobody with the required skills is available for this anymore, there's no way you'll get a feature back. However you could always step up to maintain it yourself if you have the time and are willing to develop your own skills at it. It's how maintainers change over time for certain parts of the system, so you have an opportunity here. Just my two cents, Willy