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deprecate smbfs in favour of cifs

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smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer.  Change it to shout at the user on
the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS.

Come December we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens.

[olecom@flower.upol.cz: documentation update]
Cc: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Acked-by: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9692bd9c14
commit c773633916
2 changed files with 21 additions and 14 deletions
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fs/Kconfig
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@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ config BEFS_DEBUG
depends on BEFS_FS
help
If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
debugging output from the driver.
debugging output from the driver.
config BFS_FS
tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
If unsure, say N.
config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
@ -1274,10 +1274,10 @@ config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
help
Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
enables an extended attribute handler for file security
labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
If you are not using a security module that requires using
extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
If unsure, say N.
config SMB_FS
tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)"
depends on INET
select NLS
help
@ -1858,8 +1858,8 @@ config SMB_FS
General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here:
the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
bool "Use a default NLS"
@ -1891,7 +1891,7 @@ config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
config CIFS
tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)"
depends on INET
select NLS
help
@ -1949,16 +1949,16 @@ config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be
used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
can be set to required (or optional) either in
/proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
attack.
If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_XATTR
@ -1999,7 +1999,7 @@ config CIFS_DEBUG2
messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
option can be turned off unless you are debugging
cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ config CODA_FS_OLD_API
However this new API is not backward compatible with older
clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
cache manager then say Y.
For most cases you probably want to say N.
config AFS_FS

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fs/smbfs/inode.c
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@ -500,6 +500,13 @@ static int smb_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *raw_data, int silent)
struct smb_fattr root;
int ver;
void *mem;
static int warn_count;
if (warn_count < 5) {
warn_count++;
printk(KERN_EMERG "smbfs is deprecated and will be removed"
"from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please migrate to cifs\n");
}
if (!raw_data)
goto out_no_data;