| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Original Author |
| 2 | =============== |
| 3 | Steve French (sfrench@samba.org) |
| 4 | |
| 5 | The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to: |
| 6 | Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS |
| Steve French | 966ca92 | 2005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue |
| 8 | this project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to |
| 9 | the IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features. |
| 10 | Jeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server |
| 11 | side of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing |
| 12 | portions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client) |
| Steve French | 966ca92 | 2005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | for proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like |
| 15 | operating systems. Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John |
| 16 | Newbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module. Thanks to |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical |
| 18 | Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally |
| 19 | thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Patch Contributors |
| 22 | ------------------ |
| 23 | Zwane Mwaikambo |
| 24 | Andi Kleen |
| 25 | Amrut Joshi |
| 26 | Shobhit Dayal |
| 27 | Sergey Vlasov |
| 28 | Richard Hughes |
| 29 | Yury Umanets |
| Steve French | 966ca92 | 2005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work) |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | Domen Puncer |
| Steve French | 966ca92 | 2005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup) |
| 33 | Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug) |
| 34 | Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups) |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
| 36 | Test case and Bug Report contributors |
| 37 | ------------------------------------- |
| 38 | Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports |
| 39 | and debug of problems they have found: Jochen Dolze, David Blaine, |
| 40 | Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori, |
| 41 | Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen, |
| 42 | Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special |
| 43 | mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor |
| Steve French | 966ca92 | 2005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | bugs in error paths. Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro |
| 45 | and Dave Miller. |
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | |
| 47 | And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE testers for |
| 48 | finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs. |