From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Johannes C. Schulz" Subject: Re: bring back IPX and NCPFS, please! Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 18:30:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20181109160903.GA1277@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Return-path: Received: from mail-lf1-f43.google.com ([209.85.167.43]:44206 "EHLO mail-lf1-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728169AbeKJDL7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2018 22:11:59 -0500 Received: by mail-lf1-f43.google.com with SMTP id z13so1882369lfe.11 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 09:30:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20181109160903.GA1277@1wt.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello Willy, hello Stephen Thankyou for your reply. But I'm not able to maintain or code these modules. I'm just a bloody user/webdev. It would be really nice if these modules will find a good maintainer! Best regards Johannes Am Fr., 9. Nov. 2018 um 17:09 Uhr schrieb Willy Tarreau : > > 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 --=20 Viele Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fe Johannes C. Schulz =E2=80=9EProgrammer - n. [proh-gram-er] an organism that turns caffeine and pizza into software=E2=80=9C