deprecate smbfs in favour of cifs
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>
diff --git a/fs/smbfs/inode.c b/fs/smbfs/inode.c
index 9416ead..4e5c22c 100644
--- a/fs/smbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/smbfs/inode.c
@@ -500,6 +500,13 @@
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;
