From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Philipp Schafft <lion@lion.leolix.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
mike.gair@tatasteel.com, Chrissie Caulfield <ccaulfie@redhat.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Linux-DECnet user <linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
RoarAudio <roaraudio@lists.keep-cool.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Proposed removal of DECnet support (was:Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2:BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten)
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:23:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323048232.7454.161.camel@deadeye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111204195055.A36077AD9C@priderock.keep-cool.org>
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On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 20:50 +0100, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> reflum,
>
> On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 14:52 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
[...]
> > It is good to know that people are still using the Linux DECnet code
> > too. It has lived far beyond the time when I'd envisioned it still being
> > useful :-)
>
> There are still some people interested in it. Btw. on Debian popcon
> counts 5356 users.
This is grossly misleading. Here's the historical graph showing <100
installations of libdnet until early 2011:
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libdnet
The increase in 2011 is not a sudden resurgence of interest; it comes
from roaraudio[1] users. For some reason (a joke?) roaraudio has DECnet
support and its packages depend on libdnet. You can see that the above
graph is precisely correlated with this:
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libroar1
(And so far as I can work out, libroar1 is mostly being installed as a
dependency of an unofficial package of Xine.)
The only reason I know this is because there was a sudden spate of bug
reports on the kernel due to people getting dnet-common installed as a
recommendation of libdnet and then having their Ethernet MAC addresses
reconfigured for DECnet.
[1] Yet another audio mixing daemon
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-05 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-21 9:14 [BUG] 3.2-rc2: BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten Sasha Levin
2011-11-21 10:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-21 10:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-21 10:22 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-26 10:54 ` Sasha Levin
2011-11-26 10:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-26 20:49 ` David Miller
2011-11-21 10:58 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-11-26 20:50 ` David Miller
2011-11-28 9:58 ` Christine Caulfield
2011-11-28 14:22 ` Proposed removal of DECnet support (was: Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2: BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten) Steven Whitehouse
2011-11-29 14:47 ` Philipp Schafft
2011-11-30 13:52 ` [Linux-decnet-user] Proposed removal of DECnet support (was:Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2:BUG " mike.gair
2011-11-30 14:52 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-12-02 9:14 ` mike.gair
2011-12-04 19:54 ` Philipp Schafft
2011-12-04 19:50 ` Philipp Schafft
2011-12-05 1:23 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-12-05 10:14 ` Philipp Schafft
2011-11-30 14:03 ` [Linux-decnet-user] Proposed removal of DECnet support Bob Armstrong
2011-11-28 7:14 ` [PATCH] net: Fix corruption in /proc/*/net/dev_mcast Anton Blanchard
2011-11-28 9:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-28 10:40 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-11-28 23:08 ` David Miller
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