Nuke Arcnet and Token Ring support from kernel

Antonio Huete Jimenez tuxillo at quantumachine.net
Wed Aug 29 10:30:50 PDT 2007


On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:22:14 +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote:

I'm not absolutely expert in anything but I would like to know why this
drivers are nuked instead converted into modules. thanks

> Unless no one objects with good enough arguments, I'd like to commit
> these patches in Monday:
> 
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~hasso/nuke-arcnet.patch
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~hasso/nuke-token-ring.patch
> 
> There have been opinions to do the same with FDDI, but I'm not so sure.
> Unlike Arcnet and Token Ring I know FDDI still be used in some networks
> (although in the old ones nobody touches any more, but still). Opinions?






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