other potentially deletable, dead stuff

other potentially deletable, dead stuff

[Robert P. J. Day]

  and while len is working on detaching APM and ACPI from legacy power
management, here's the short list of other stuff that is listed as on
its way to being dead, based on the contents of Kconfig files.  any of
this stuff candidates for removal, if not scheduling for removal?

  (note:  i made no effort to cull this list of entries that i know
folks are already aware of or might be working on, or stuff that we've
already established is *not* really obsolete.  it's just a list.)


config NET_CLS_POLICE
        bool "Traffic Policing (obsolete)"

config IP_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT
        bool "Layer 3 Dependent Connection tracking (OBSOLETE)"

config IP6_NF_QUEUE
        tristate "IP6 Userspace queueing via NETLINK (OBSOLETE)"

config IP_NF_QUEUE
        tristate "IP Userspace queueing via NETLINK (OBSOLETE)"

config ARPD
        bool "IP: ARP daemon support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
        ...
        This code is experimental and also obsolete...

config BRIDGE_EBT_ULOG
        tristate "ebt: ulog support (OBSOLETE)"

config PCMCIA_IOCTL
        bool "PCMCIA control ioctl (obsolete)"

config SHAPER
        tristate "Traffic Shaper (OBSOLETE)"

config SUN_BPP
        tristate "Bidirectional parallel port support (OBSOLETE)"

config I2O_CONFIG_OLD_IOCTL
        bool "Enable ioctls (OBSOLETE)"

config MOXA_SMARTIO
        tristate "Moxa SmartIO support (OBSOLETE)"

config RAW_DRIVER
        tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)"

config ISDN_I4L
        tristate "Old ISDN4Linux (obsolete)"

config MODE_TT
        bool "Tracing thread support (DEPRECATED)"
        ...
        This option controls whether tracing thread support is compiled
        into UML. This option is largely obsolete ...

rday
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Re: other potentially deletable, dead stuff

[Tilman Schmidt]

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Am 21.04.2007 01:19 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> [...] here's the short list of other stuff that is listed as on
> its way to being dead, based on the contents of Kconfig files.  any of
> this stuff candidates for removal, if not scheduling for removal?

[...]

> config ISDN_I4L
>         tristate "Old ISDN4Linux (obsolete)"

<message type=recorded>

The "obsolete" label on the ISDN_I4L Kconfig option is,
and has always been, incorrect.

isdn4linux is not obsolete.

isdn4linux is in active use, and there is no replacement.

Removing isdn4linux would constitute a serious regression.

</message>

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Wehrhausweg 66                                  Fax: +49 228 4299019
53227 Bonn
Germany


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Re: other potentially deletable, dead stuff

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> Am 21.04.2007 01:19 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > [...] here's the short list of other stuff that is listed as on
> > its way to being dead, based on the contents of Kconfig files.  any of
> > this stuff candidates for removal, if not scheduling for removal?
>
> [...]
>
> > config ISDN_I4L
> >         tristate "Old ISDN4Linux (obsolete)"
>
> <message type=recorded>
>
> The "obsolete" label on the ISDN_I4L Kconfig option is,
> and has always been, incorrect.
>
> isdn4linux is not obsolete.
>
> isdn4linux is in active use, and there is no replacement.
>
> Removing isdn4linux would constitute a serious regression.

i know.  believe me, i *know that*, since i'm fairly sure it was my
observation that initially started that discussion about isdn4linux.
i did make it clear in that previous post that all i was doing was
listing stuff in the source tree that is currently marked with
"obsolete" or something like that, with no regard to any discussion
that's taken place about it recently.

all i was interested in was feedback along the lines of, "oh, yeah,
*that* feature is thoroughly dead and can be tossed," nothing more.

rday

Re: other potentially deletable, dead stuff

[Tilman Schmidt]

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Am 21.04.2007 15:11 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
[...]
>> Removing isdn4linux would constitute a serious regression.
> 
> i know.  believe me, i *know that*, since i'm fairly sure it was my
> observation that initially started that discussion about isdn4linux.

Sure. I didn't want to suggest otherwise. Sorry if I did.

> i did make it clear in that previous post that all i was doing was
> listing stuff in the source tree that is currently marked with
> "obsolete" or something like that, with no regard to any discussion
> that's taken place about it recently.

Of course, and thanks for that. But I can't just let it stand
uncommented, can I? People might start believing isdn4linux *was*
obsolete because "it was on that list of obsolete items, and nobody
protested."

> all i was interested in was feedback along the lines of, "oh, yeah,
> *that* feature is thoroughly dead and can be tossed," nothing more.

Right. So please don't feel annoyed by my reply. Just take it as a
feedback of "*that* feature definitely isn't dead".

Thanks
Tilman

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Tilman Schmidt                                  E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany


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