deprecating smbmount ?

Jay Fenlason fenlason at redhat.com
Mon Jul 24 14:54:53 GMT 2006


On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:33:47PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Steve,
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> At some point I would like to stop shipping smbmount, smbmnt,
> and smbumount since they are basically unmaintained code.
> Do you have a feel for when this might be?  When will the smbfs
> code be removed from the kernel?

We've already disabled smbfs in Fedora (since Fedora 5, even).  I
manually remove smbmount, et al in my .spec files.  I haven't heard
many complaints so far.

			-- JF


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