deprecate smbfs in favour of cifs

smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer.  Change it to shout at the user on
the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS.

Come December we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens.

[olecom@flower.upol.cz: documentation update]
Cc: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Acked-by: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/smbfs/inode.c b/fs/smbfs/inode.c
index 9416ead0c7a..4e5c22ca802 100644
--- a/fs/smbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/smbfs/inode.c
@@ -500,6 +500,13 @@ static int smb_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *raw_data, int silent)
 	struct smb_fattr root;
 	int ver;
 	void *mem;
+	static int warn_count;
+
+	if (warn_count < 5) {
+		warn_count++;
+		printk(KERN_EMERG "smbfs is deprecated and will be removed"
+			"from the 2.6.27 kernel.  Please migrate to cifs\n");
+	}
 
 	if (!raw_data)
 		goto out_no_data;