From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: remove obsolete networking/multicast.txt file Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:54:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20130121.135425.1070170828557144836.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1358785061-17985-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:41060 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752755Ab3AUSy2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:54:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1358785061-17985-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Paul Gortmaker Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:17:41 -0500 > The original intent of this file was to list limitations in > drivers/hardware relating to multicast use, back when some > modest hardware from the early 1990s did not support things > we might take for granted today. > > I was intending to delete some now-gone MCA/token ring entries > in this file, but once I opened it, I found it only contained > information on the earliest (pre-2000) linux networking drivers. > > Checking the git history shows that the file hasn't been touched > since 2005. Clearly nobody is actively consulting this file > as a meaningful reference. > > Rather than add a "YES YES YES" line for all of the drivers we > currently have, lets just take advantage of the fact that nobody > is using the file to delete it. > > This has the side benefit of not having to do a line-by-line > deletion of the file content as each older driver is expired. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Applied, thanks Paul.