netdev - Re: bring back IPX and NCPFS, please!

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Message-ID: <CAFfL_ozyvDbOL0Z-E6nLkhVF3oDQHFqAHVe1SvuUk2=kHHre7w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 18:30:14 +0100
From:   "Johannes C. Schulz" <enzephalon76@...glemail.com>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bring back IPX and NCPFS, please!

Hello Willy, hello Stephen

Thankyou for your reply.
But I'm not able to maintain or code these modules. I'm just a bloody
user/webdev. It would be really nice if these modules will find a good
maintainer!

Best regards
Johannes

Am Fr., 9. Nov. 2018 um 17:09 Uhr schrieb Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>:
>
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:23:27PM +0100, Johannes C. Schulz wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I like to please you to bring back IPX and NCPFS modules to the kernel.
> > Whyever my admins using Novell-shares on our network which I'm not be
> > able to use anymore - I'm forced to use cifs instead (and the admins
> > will kill the cifs-shares in some time), because my kernel (4.18) does
> > not have support for ncpfs anymore.
> > Maybe we at my work are not enough people that just for us this
> > modules will come back, but maybe out there are other people.
> > Thank you.
>
> Well, like any code, it requires time and skills. If nobody with the
> required skills is available for this anymore, there's no way you'll
> get a feature back. However you could always step up to maintain it
> yourself if you have the time and are willing to develop your own
> skills at it. It's how maintainers change over time for certain parts
> of the system, so you have an opportunity here.
>
> Just my two cents,
> Willy

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Viele Grüße
Johannes C. Schulz

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