From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 10:24:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41E016A4CE; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:24:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058A443D1D; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:24:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB6AOQIL079851; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:24:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Scott Long From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:15:28 MST." <41B43140.802@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:24:26 +0100 Message-ID: <79850.1102328666@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] IPX and NWFS to be killed in -current. X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:24:27 -0000 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.