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

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:50:46 -0300


Em Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Alan Cox escreveu:
> 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.

OK, but even those will be taken care of, as the changes had to be done anyway
for SNAP, so I'll just stick the (void*)1 to its packet_types.

> > 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.

As some of the other protocols, but at this point it may well be easier to
fix it in the kernel where it sits 8)

Oh, dang, I forgot that these other protocols can work on fast lines these
days 8)

- Arnaldo
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