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Subject: Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:48:36 -0400
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On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 22:26 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 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.

Or you could deprecate it and later drop it and when people complain,
you just found your new maintainer :-)

-- Steve