From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC] econet: remove ancient bug ridden protocol Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 01:35:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120518.013546.737313304742968032.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20120517205951.462d336f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <20120518042301.GA723@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, arnd@arndb.de, john.calixto@modsystems.com, xemul@parallels.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120518042301.GA723@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Matthew Garrett Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 05:23:01 +0100 > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:59:51PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> The ancient Econet protocol should go. Most of the bug fixes in recent >> years have been fixing security vulnerabilities. The hardware hasn't >> been made since 1981, it is only interesting as an archeological curiosity. > > Pedantry - the hardware was introduced in 1981, it was still being made > into at least the 90s. Still probably time for it to die, though. Patch applied with this pedantic adjustment :-)