From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
John Calixto <john.calixto@modsystems.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] econet: remove ancient bug ridden protocol
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 05:23:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120518042301.GA723@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120517205951.462d336f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
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.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-18 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-18 3:59 [RFC] econet: remove ancient bug ridden protocol Stephen Hemminger
2012-05-18 4:23 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-05-18 5:35 ` David Miller
2012-05-18 5:31 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2012-05-18 5:41 ` David Miller
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