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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 14:22:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 14:37:15 -0800 |
| commit | c773633916c66f8362ca01983d97bd33e35b743f (patch) | |
| tree | 4c3da7d614c530d851db6b3c6bcc3d85519feeb3 /fs/Kconfig | |
| parent | 9692bd9c140618e3f6a2848900aee96c9cd8a65c (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-c773633916c66f8362ca01983d97bd33e35b743f.zip op-kernel-dev-c773633916c66f8362ca01983d97bd33e35b743f.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 28 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -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 |
