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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: samba@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Urban.Widmark@enlight.net, Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:46:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050821124657.22f1a095.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050821143457.GA5726@stusta.de>

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>
> 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?
> 

Yes, it's a poor situation.  That driver seems to have quite a few problems.

I was hoping that by now we could simply deprecate smbfs and tell people to
use CIFS, but I'm not sure that CIFS is ready for that yet.

Steve, what's your take?  Does CIFS offer a 100% superset of smbfs
capabilities?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-21 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 14:34 Adrian Bunk
2005-08-21 19:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-08-22  1:06   ` Dave Jones
     [not found]   ` <OF200CE886.6A353FBA-ON87257065.0005812F-86257065.0005B594@us.ibm.com>
2005-08-22  1:49     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-22  3:09     ` [Samba] " Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2005-08-23  1:11       ` Ian Kent
2005-08-23 15:08         ` Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2005-08-24  0:47           ` Ian Kent
     [not found] <20050821143457.GA5726@stusta.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-21 20:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-22  0:48   ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-24  3:39 Steve French
2005-08-24  4:19 ` Hal Wigoda

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