Re: [PATCH] remove net/README

Re: [PATCH] remove net/README

[David S. Miller]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:52:04 +0100
John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> wrote:

> This file seems bitrotted and more up to date info is available in
> MAINTAINERS in large part.

For some reason I deleted this file from 2.4.x but I never
did it for 2.5.x, fixed...

[PATCH] remove net/README

[John Levon]

This file seems bitrotted and more up to date info is available in
MAINTAINERS in large part.

regards
john


diff -Naur -X dontdiff linux-cvs/net/README linux-fixes/net/README
--- linux-cvs/net/README	2002-02-06 00:13:33.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-fixes/net/README	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-
-Maintainers and developers for networking code sections
-
-Code Section		Bug Report Contact
--------------------+-------------------------------------------
-802 [other	]	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk	
-    [token ring	]	p.norton@computer.org
-appletalk		jschlst@samba.org
-ax25			g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk
-bridge			buytenh@gnu.org
-core			alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
-decnet			SteveW@ACM.org
-ethernet		alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
-ipv4			davem@caip.rutgers.edu,Eric.Schenk@dna.lth.se
-ipv6			davem@caip.rutgers.edu,Eric.Schenk@dna.lth.se
-ipx			acme@conectiva.com.br
-spx			jschlst@samba.org
-irda                    dagb@cs.uit.no
-lapb			g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk
-netrom			g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk
-rose			g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk
-wanrouter		gene@compuserve.com, jaspreet@sangoma and dm@sangoma.com
-unix			alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
-x25			g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk
-bluetooth		maxk@qualcomm.com
-8021q                   greearb@candelatech.com, vlan@scry.wanfear.com

Re: [PATCH] remove net/README

[David S. Miller]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:02:05 +0100
John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> wrote:

> hch mentioned TUNABLE too which is also too old to be useful, that's
> still hanging around in 2.6 too

Although some of it is out of date, some of it is not, and
the parts that are still relevant are not documented anywhere
else.  So it's got to stay until there is some kind of replacement
for that info under Documentation/ or wherever.

Re: [PATCH] remove net/README

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:45:20 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:52:04 +0100
> John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> wrote:
> 
> > This file seems bitrotted and more up to date info is available in
> > MAINTAINERS in large part.
> 
> For some reason I deleted this file from 2.4.x but I never
> did it for 2.5.x, fixed...

When you're doing janitor type stuff currently I would also suggest
an update of the NET4 version numbers:

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.x
->
NET4.1 for Linux 2.6 ?  (not that many changes since 2.4, but still a minor increase would be ok)

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0  (-> 1.1 would be reasonable for TCP/IP and s/4.0/4.1/)

IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0               (IPv6 has changed a lot, it would probably deserve an 1.0 now.
                                    also 4.0 -> 4.1) 

Also some other users have similar version strings which could be all updated to NET4.1
(appletalk, IPX, decnet etc.) 

-Andi

Re: [PATCH] remove net/README

[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:07:25 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> When you're doing janitor type stuff currently I would also suggest
> an update of the NET4 version numbers:

I don't think we need to print all this crap out at all.

The only reason I really kept it in there was to keep
giving credit to the Swansea Computer Society, but Alan
indicated that that isn't necessary any more.

Really, if someone says they're running kernel x.y.z we
know what networking code they're running :)

Re: [PATCH] remove net/README

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:58:23 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:07:25 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > When you're doing janitor type stuff currently I would also suggest
> > an update of the NET4 version numbers:
> 
> I don't think we need to print all this crap out at all.

Makes sense. Especially since the version numbers tended to be stale
traditionally.

I would keep at least one printk for high level networking so that we know 
it has started (useful to get some clue where we are on a total
hang) 

One small disadvantage when e.g. the appletalk or ipx printks
are killed is that you cannot check if the user has compiled them
in or loaded. But that's probably tolerable. If it should be a 
problem a /proc/net/protocols would be probably a better solution.

Are you doing it or should I send a patch?

-Andi

Re: [PATCH] remove net/README

[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:22:42 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Are you doing it or should I send a patch?

I'll take care of this and add a /proc/net/protocols or
somesuch.