From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Gortmaker Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 0/4] Delete token ring support. Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:38:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20120516013849.GA26701@windriver.com> References: <1337128544-18680-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <20120515.210020.1631343759962418692.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: , , , , , To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:36586 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932115Ab2EPBjB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2012 21:39:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120515.210020.1631343759962418692.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: [Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 0/4] Delete token ring support.] On 15/05/2012 (Tue 21:00) David Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:48:15 -0700 > > > Paul Gortmaker writes: > >> > >> What I mean by (2) is the implicit absence of anyone fixing _runtime_ > >> bugs, going all the way back to 2.6.12 in 2005. If the code was being > >> _used_, we'd see runtime regressions reported and their associated > >> fixes. > > > > Removal sounds good to me. In fact I would argue to remove any other driver > > which did not get a real change since 2005 too. 3c501.c is on my radar. The 8bit ISA hardware with discrete TTL components everywhere was crap back in the early 1990s, and it sure as hell has not got better with age. > > I also support removing the token ring stuff, and in fact I'm more > than happy to add your patch set to the net-next tree right now. Great -- that was the kind of response I was hoping for, but not expecting to get. Let me run one last allyesconfig/allmodconfig and I'll send a pull request. I've already run the defconfig build on s390 to make sure I didn't break them. Thanks, Paul.