From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] (1/5) get rid of useless hashbin in irtty Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:07:58 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F416A5E.2060302@pobox.com> References: <20030815154608.56cf0551.shemminger@osdl.org> <20030815230546.GA31831@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030816052048.5858d68a.davem@redhat.com> <20030817001405.GA1916@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030816175851.58a2c179.davem@redhat.com> <20030817011131.GA2120@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030818090313.7f153d7a.shemminger@osdl.org> <20030818165024.GB5992@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030818165321.GH24693@gtf.org> <20030818170850.GE5992@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, lists@mdiehl.de Return-path: To: jt@hpl.hp.com In-Reply-To: <20030818170850.GE5992@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:53:21PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:50:24AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: >> >>> You can use irtty-sir with a cross-over serial cable between >>>two PCs. IrLAN is a bit flaky and no longer maintained, I would >>>recommend to try IrNET or RfCOMM. >> >>Can we remove IrLAN in 2.6, then? :) >> >> Jeff > > > The problem is that we don't have another implementation of > IrLAN. There are a few devices that talk IrLAN (NetBeamIr, Win95), and > for those there is no alternative and IrLAN works good enough with > them (I test it every few months). No need to remove it if it still > works... No argument. IrLAN definitely sounds like it should stay. > If you really are in cleanup mood, you can kill : > o irtty (broken - replaced by irtty-sir + sir-dev) > o toshoboe (no spinlock - replaced by donauboe) > o smc-ircc (flaky - replaced by smsc-ircc2) > o ep7211_ir (obsolete hardware, unmaintained) > Happy ? hehe :) Given this list, I would be ok with removing the first three, if you and others are ok with it. If something's been replaced, I don't have any problem removing it. If something doesn't have a replacement, like IrLAN or ep7211_ir, Linux generally leans towards not removing that code (retrocomputing!), so I was perhaps a bit hasty in suggesting that. But that's why we have discussion ;-) Jeff