On 28 Jul 00 at 12:11, Info wrote:
>
> Ncpfs became a standard user package, especially for office workstations.
> IPX is a kernel future now. Ipchains (netfilter) included in kernel in
> 2.4.0. What's about including ncpfs package in kernel - maybe, in the
> following kernel versions? This is unlogically: IPX protocol exists in
> kernel, a lot of disk partitions too, a lot of other futures too, but the
> most usable tool for office workstations connected to Novell - is
> not.
Hi,
ncpfs is in kernel. What is not in kernel is mount program and other
ncp based utilities. It is just with ipx package for IPX interfaces -
- you also need ipx_interface and ipx_configure to setup them up.
You really do not want to add 3.6MB of sources of userspace ncpfs
into Linus's kernel. And I do not want it too - ncpfs has nothing to
do with kernel, you can use userspace utilities at least on AIX
and IRIX too (--disable-kernel --disable-ipx), if you have gcc/gmake
on them, so there is no reason to bundle userspace ncpfs tools with kernel.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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