Re: [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
30 Sep 2002 13:55:56 +0100


On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 05:38, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> I'm working on Appletalk, will be fixed after X.25, humm, in fact Appletalk
> only uses SNAP on Ethernet, so it is only broken for ppptalk and ltalk, does
> anybody still uses these later two?

ppptalk is relevant to the modern world, localtalk is basically for
talking to old macintoshes many of which don't have any capability for
ethernet. I don't think either of them are even going to be performance
matters.

> Nobody working on this, as far as I know
> > econet/af_econet.c

Ancient BBC micro protocol, could probably be done just as well in user
space.

Alan

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