Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:24:26 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] IPX and NWFS to be killed in -current. Message-ID: <79850.1102328666@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:15:28 MST." <41B43140.802@freebsd.org>
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In message <41B43140.802@freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> We are aiming 6.X at production readiness around start of 2006. >> >> By that time IPX and NWFS are not really interesting and nobody >> seems to be interested in doing the SMPng work on them. >> >> I propose we remove them from -current before the 6.x freeze starts >> next spring. >> > >Are these getting in the way of current work? That's not really the most relevant question is it ? I would think that the question is "Will we be comfortable with listing them in our feature list for 6.x ?" This could also be phrased as: "Do we actually have somebody who will make sure it works ?" or even: "Does anybody care about PR's against the code and does it even work ?" This last one I think we can answer: Hint: S Submitted Tracker Resp. Description f 2001/12/13 kern/32797 glebius [netgraph] Problem with IPX and netgraph(4) o 2003/03/06 kern/48976 nwfs.ko oddity a 2003/11/12 kern/59211 [nwfs] System crashes when moving files from NWFS mounted system p 2004/04/05 kern/65217 bms PATCH: Improve Linux IPX application compatibility o 2004/04/23 kern/65920 [nwfs] Mounted Netware filesystem behaves strange o 2004/07/15 kern/69100 [nwfs] panic: 5.2.1p9 kernel panics when mounting nwfs filesystem o 2004/08/10 kern/70236 [patch] uninitialised parameters passed to kernel_sysctl [nwfs_vfsops.c smb_subr.c] o 2004/11/19 kern/74105 rwatson IPX protocol support doesn't work -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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