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Date:      Sun, 5 Mar 2006 20:01:31 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc:        Bachilo Dmitry <root@solink.ru>, stable@freebsd.org, Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
Subject:   Re: mount_smbfs trouble after cvsup
Message-ID:  <20060305200015.I89137@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20060224183435.GA66559@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Yar Tikhiy wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:04:54AM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>> Is there a reason this change was made?  And is there a reason why
>
> The change wasn't against NETSMBCRYPTO, it just corrected the way
> kernel modules get their options.
>
>> NETSMBCRYPTO is not in GENERIC?  To me, it seems that breaking smbfs
>> between releases within 6.x violates POLA... I suspect a large number of
>> people (myself included) have always used smbfs for passworded shares
>> and it's "just worked".
>
> This issue is under investigation by the Release Engineers and yours
> truly.  I'm sorry my change to the kernel module framework caused
> the confusion, but so the whole issue has got attention at last.
> Of course, it must be fixed before 6.1-R.  In the meanwhile, I'd
> like to hear about any reservations on making NETSMBCRYPTO the
> default case for netsmb/smbfs.  Thanks!

I don't see any problem with making it the default case, since before the 
framework cleanup, it effectively was default.

Gavin



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