From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: net/wanrouter? Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:37:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20120524093713.59e3e497@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <1337708034.3432.0.camel@joe2Laptop> <4FBE3CFC.6070103@computer.org> <20120524091310.1c01577e@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <1337876577.5070.7.camel@joe2Laptop> <4FBE62AB.6000900@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joe Perches , Jan Ceuleers , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:48515 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753943Ab2EXQhQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 12:37:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4FBE62AB.6000900@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 24 May 2012 09:32:43 -0700 Ben Greear wrote: > On 05/24/2012 09:22 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 09:13 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 May 2012 15:51:56 +0200 > >> Jan Ceuleers wrote: > >> > >>> On 05/22/2012 07:33 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > >>>> Does anyone still use this? > >>> > >>> I have the hardware (a Sangoma ADSL PCI card) but am no longer using it. > >>> Also, as I remember, Sangoma stopped contributing to the upstream driver > >>> many years ago while still actively developing the out-of-tree version. > >> > >> The wanrouter code hasn't supported Sangoma hardware for a long time, > >> it got removed early in 2.6. > >> > >> There are a bunch of old T1 and T3 cards there but I doubt any of them > >> are still for sale. But somebody is probably still using them. > > > > I'm sure people are still using token ring > > too, just not with recent kernels. > > > > I think wanrouter is old and dusty and can > > be removed just like TR. > > I think you should mark it deprecated for a release or > two first, just in case. Unless it is obviously very > broken or holding up other important work. > And add to Documentation/features-removal. Probably need a year of warning period.