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...@1wt.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 -- Viele Grüße Johannes C. Schulz „Programmer - n. [proh-gram-er] an organism that turns caffeine and pizza into software“