Is there any way to compile smbfs as a module in the kernel? I did a 'make menuconfig' and it shows cifs. I checked online and and found out that smbfs is now deprecated and instead replaced by cifs. Is cifs backward compatible with smbfs? I need to set up a smb share with an old system which has kernel version 2.4 running smbfs (smb version 1). Is there any way i can achieve this?

Thanks