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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/authors.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/authors.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b02d6dd6c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/authors.rst @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +======= +Authors +======= + +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. |