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SubjectRe: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree

On Fri, 12 May 2006, John Kelly wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:24:40 -0400 (EDT), Steven Rostedt
> <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> >> >Sorry for falling in late but we can't do that.
> >> >Win 98 (95 too?) shared can not be mounted with CIFS, it requires SMBFS.
>
> >> W98? He's dead, Jim.
>
> >huh, my wife has a laptop that she still uses that has w98 on it. And I do
> >use smbfs to sometimes communicate with it.
>
> Users who need vintage features can use vintage kernels. They haven't
> been pulled off the market.

I need to have the latest on my desktop. The machine I'm communicating
with is old.

>
>
> >Why upgrade when you don't have to?
>
> Why drag around old worn out baggage in new kernels?
>

Because it's still used by new kernels.

-- Steve

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