linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix typo from smpfs to smbfs in filesystem documentation

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Message-ID: <Z889RfnudqMc5r_e@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:28:05 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: kth <kangtaeho2456@...il.com>
Cc: corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix typo from smpfs to smbfs in filesystem
 documentation

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 02:41:29AM +0800, kth wrote:
> The documentation incorrectly referred to 'smbfs' as 'smpfs'. This change corrects that typo to ensure the documentation is accurate and not misleading.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kang Taeho <kangtaeho2456@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/highuid.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/highuid.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/highuid.rst
> index 6ee70465c0ea..9239067563a1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/highuid.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/highuid.rst
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ What's left to be done for 32-bit UIDs on all Linux architectures:
>  
>    Other filesystems have not been checked yet.
>  
> -- The ncpfs and smpfs filesystems cannot presently use 32-bit UIDs in
> +- The ncpfs and smbfs filesystems cannot presently use 32-bit UIDs in

ncpfs doesn't exist any more; it was removed many years ago.  And the
smbfs that is referred to here was replaced by cifs many years ago.

I have a feeling the entire highuid document should be deleted.  It
describes a transition that happened 25 years ago.