Deprecate the 'socket address' parameter and remove special handling?

[simo]

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 10:44 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 07:07:27PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > I've been looking over our parameters, as I try to merge the loadparm
> > systems.
> > 
> > I started by proposing removing the special behaviour that allows
> > 'socket address = ' to mean 'socket address = 0.0.0.0' (attached) in the
> > bug that created the current behaviour:
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5944
> > 
> > However, I've been thinking about the broader context, and I'm a bit
> > lost as to what this parameter is for exactly.  It seems to be a very
> > old parameter from the earliest days of Samba. 
> > 
> > Specifically, it seems to be duplicated by 'interfaces = 1.2.3.5' and
> > 'bind interfaces only = yes'.  The code in nmbd.c says:  'The parameter
> > 'socket address' is now deprecated.' but the manpage fails to mention
> > this.
> > 
> > There is no rush to remove this parameter, but I would like to remove it
> > in 4.1, so we have only one way to configure the interfaces we bind to. 
> > 
> > (Or we could remove it for 4.0 if that were the view of the list).
> 
> +1 on removal for me. I think it's been superceeded.

I would vote for removing it in 4.0 and not wait till 4.1

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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