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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/AUTHORS b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/AUTHORS deleted file mode 100644 index 75865da2ce14..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/AUTHORS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ -Original Author -=============== -Steve French (sfrench@samba.org) - -The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to: -Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS -improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue -this project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to -the IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features. -Jeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server -side of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing -portions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank -Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client) -for proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like -operating systems. Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John -Newbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module. Thanks to -the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical -Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally -thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement. - -Patch Contributors ------------------- -Zwane Mwaikambo -Andi Kleen -Amrut Joshi -Shobhit Dayal -Sergey Vlasov -Richard Hughes -Yury Umanets -Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work) -Domen Puncer -Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup) -Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug) -Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups) -Miklos Szeredi -Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version. -Asser Ferno (Change Notify support) -Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup -Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers) -Igor Mammedov (DFS support) -Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code) -Scott Lovenberg -Pavel Shilovsky (for great work adding SMB2 support, and various SMB3 features) -Aurelien Aptel (for DFS SMB3 work and some key bug fixes) -Ronnie Sahlberg (for SMB3 xattr work, bug fixes, and lots of great work on compounding) -Shirish Pargaonkar (for many ACL patches over the years) -Sachin Prabhu (many bug fixes, including for reconnect, copy offload and security) -Paulo Alcantara -Long Li (some great work on RDMA, SMB Direct) - - -Test case and Bug Report contributors -------------------------------------- -Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports -and debug of problems they have found: Jochen Dolze, David Blaine, -Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori, -Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen, -Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special -mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor -bugs in error paths. Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro -and Dave Miller. - -And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE and Citrix and RedHat testers for finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs. |