netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ncpfs: move net/ncpfs to drivers/staging/ncpfs

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Message-ID: <CA+i2_Df3OBtDwXGAbUz0WT7+yt8=JeaVLMHhdg2puExFAqnDMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:12:51 -0800
From:   Petr Vandrovec <petr@...drovec.name>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, davem@...emloft.net,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ncpfs: move net/ncpfs to drivers/staging/ncpfs

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:22:27AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> The Netware Core Protocol is a file system that talks to
>> Netware clients over IPX. Since IPX has been dead for many years
>> move the file system into staging for eventual interment.
>
> Should probably cc Petr on this ... (added)

Hi,
  NCP and ncpfs can actually run over UDP and TCP too, so there is
no hard IPX dependency.

Saying that, I think that ncpfs fully deserves being removed/obsoleted.
It is pretty hard to find hardware on which NetWare can still run, most
of distributions do not ship userspace tools anymore, and as far as
I can tell there are zero users.

So feel free to go ahead and do what you got to do...

Thanks,
Petr

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