Re: [PATCH] (1/5) get rid of useless hashbin in irtty

Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:53:21PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:50:24AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

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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 IrLAN is a bit flaky and no longer maintained, I would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