From nobody Thu Oct 28 19:33:18 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09991834027; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=oNTo=PQ=quip.cz=000.fbsd@elsa.codelab.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4HgG1t3MTVz3JyD; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=oNTo=PQ=quip.cz=000.fbsd@elsa.codelab.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4D928411; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:33:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from illbsd.quip.test (ip-78-45-215-131.net.upcbroadband.cz [78.45.215.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 20A0A28417; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:33:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14 To: Ed Maste , Eugene Grosbein Cc: FreeBSD Current , freebsd-stable stable References: From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:33:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4HgG1t3MTVz3JyD X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 28/10/2021 18:25, Ed Maste wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 11:05, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >> >> Please do not remove what is not broken. > > That is exactly the problem though: it was broken. It was fixed only > because the CHERI folks found that it wasn't working and fixed it, and > they are not going to be using it much longer. If nobody else > regularly tests it in -CURRENT it will break again, and will end up > broken in a release. Can this problem be covered by some automated tests to catch it sooner - before release? > That said, since it does seem that several folks > are still currently using i I'll avoid trying to remove it in the near > future. > > A caveat for the man pages may instead be something like: > > The smbfs filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol. > smbfs is unmaintained and may not function correctly in FreeBSD 14 or > later. Users are advised to evaluate the sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs port > instead. Kind regards Miroslav Lachman