16 Sep
2010
16 Sep
'10
9:26 p.m.
Hi,
On 16 Sep 2010, at 16:04, Jan Kara wrote:
On Thu 16-09-10 16:32:59, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
The big kernel lock is gone from almost all code in linux-next, this is the status of what I think will happen to the remaining users:
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fs/ncpfs: Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left.
I think some people still use this...
Yes, indeed. Netware is still alive (unfortunately!) and ncpfs is used in a lot of Universities here in the UK at least (we use it about a thousand workstations and servers here at Cambridge University!).
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/