5 messages, 2 authors, 2007-02-26 · open the first message on its own page
From: Rolf Eike Beer <hidden>
Date: 2007-02-21 07:24:42
Who cares about stuff describing what happened in early 2.5 days? Even worse is to reference Kconfig options removed back then. Go, rest in pieces. Eike
From: Rolf Eike Beer <hidden>
Date: 2007-02-21 07:24:43
SPX was removed in early 2.5. How to connect to a Mac or the other OS isn't hard to find out these days. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <redacted> --- commit 0566e9a5f19ca9fe1982e2b4a89aff131cc6525b tree 20b72b4e347a0ff926f82188bb296c2b3a8911f5 parent ce4e52a8be675c1724fa3af503ff1c75478ff2e8 author Rolf Eike Beer [off-list ref] Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:43:37 +0100 committer Rolf Eike Beer [off-list ref] Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:43:37 +0100 net/ipx/Kconfig | 6 +----- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipx/Kconfig b/net/ipx/Kconfig
index 980a826..e9ad006 100644
--- a/net/ipx/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipx/Kconfig@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ config IPX support", below. IPX is similar in scope to IP, while SPX, which runs on top of IPX, - is similar to TCP. There is also experimental support for SPX in - Linux (see "SPX networking", below). + is similar to TCP. To turn your Linux box into a fully featured NetWare file server and IPX router, say Y here and fetch either lwared from
@@ -26,9 +25,6 @@ config IPX information, read the IPX-HOWTO available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. - General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and - Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. - The IPX driver would enlarge your kernel by about 16 KB. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ipx. Unless you want to integrate your Linux box with a local Novell
From: Rolf Eike Beer <hidden>
Date: 2007-02-21 07:25:16
[IPX] Remove ancient changelog Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <redacted> --- commit 6b8afc66b9d6893d3fa292b75769b58539836ff3 tree 9078513bb6727e61aee238da153d9b3358a1d817 parent 0566e9a5f19ca9fe1982e2b4a89aff131cc6525b author Rolf Eike Beer [off-list ref] Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:45:03 +0100 committer Rolf Eike Beer [off-list ref] Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:45:03 +0100 net/ipx/ChangeLog | 101 ----------------------------------------------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipx/ChangeLog b/net/ipx/ChangeLog
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b29763..0000000
--- a/net/ipx/ChangeLog
+++ /dev/null@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@ - Revision 0.21: Uses the new generic socket option code. - - Revision 0.22: Gcc clean ups and drop out device registration. Use the - new multi-protocol edition of hard_header - - Revision 0.23: IPX /proc by Mark Evans. Adding a route will - will overwrite any existing route to the same network. - - Revision 0.24: Supports new /proc with no 4K limit - - Revision 0.25: Add ephemeral sockets, passive local network - identification, support for local net 0 and - multiple datalinks <Greg Page> - - Revision 0.26: Device drop kills IPX routes via it. (needed for module) - - Revision 0.27: Autobind <Mark Evans> - - Revision 0.28: Small fix for multiple local networks <Thomas Winder> - - Revision 0.29: Assorted major errors removed <Mark Evans> - Small correction to promisc mode error fix <Alan Cox> - Asynchronous I/O support. Changed to use notifiers - and the newer packet_type stuff. Assorted major - fixes <Alejandro Liu> - - Revision 0.30: Moved to net/ipx/... <Alan Cox> - Don't set address length on recvfrom that errors. - Incorrect verify_area. - - Revision 0.31: New sk_buffs. This still needs a lot of - testing. <Alan Cox> - - Revision 0.32: Using sock_alloc_send_skb, firewall hooks. <Alan Cox> - Supports sendmsg/recvmsg - - Revision 0.33: Internal network support, routing changes, uses a - protocol private area for ipx data. - - Revision 0.34: Module support. <Jim Freeman> - - Revision 0.35: Checksum support. <Neil Turton>, hooked in by <Alan Cox> - Handles WIN95 discovery packets <Volker Lendecke> - - Revision 0.36: Internal bump up for 2.1 - - Revision 0.37: Began adding POSIXisms. - - Revision 0.38: Asynchronous socket stuff made current. - - Revision 0.39: SPX interfaces - - Revision 0.40: Tiny SIOCGSTAMP fix (chris@cybernet.co.nz) - - Revision 0.41: 802.2TR removed (p.norton@computer.org) - Fixed connecting to primary net, - Automatic binding on send & receive, - Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptogimp@geocities.com> - - Revision 042: Multithreading - use spinlocks and refcounting to - protect some structures: ipx_interface sock list, list - of ipx interfaces, etc. - Bugfixes - do refcounting on net_devices, check function - results, etc. Thanks to davem and freitag for - suggestions and guidance. - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>, - November, 2000 - - Revision 043: Shared SKBs, don't mangle packets, some cleanups - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>, - December, 2000 - - Revision 044: Call ipxitf_hold on NETDEV_UP - acme - - Revision 045: fix PPROP routing bug - acme - - Revision 046: Further fixes to PPROP, ipxitf_create_internal was - doing an unneeded MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, implement - sysctl for ipx_pprop_broacasting, fix the ipx sysctl - handling, making it dynamic, some cleanups, thanks to - Petr Vandrovec for review and good suggestions. (acme) - - Revision 047: Cleanups, CodingStyle changes, move the ncp connection - hack out of line - acme - - Revision 048: Use sk->protinfo to store the pointer to IPX private - area, remove af_ipx from sk->protinfo and move ipx_opt - to include/net/ipx.h, use IPX_SK like DecNET, etc - acme - - Revision 049: SPX support dropped, see comment in ipx_create - acme - - Revision 050: Use seq_file for proc stuff, moving it to ipx_proc.c - acme - -Other fixes: - - Protect the module by a MOD_INC_USE_COUNT/MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT pair. Also, now - usage count is managed this way: - -Count one if the auto_interface mode is on - -Count one per configured interface - - Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2007-02-26 23:47:34
From: Rolf Eike Beer <redacted> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:58:08 +0100
SPX was removed in early 2.5. How to connect to a Mac or the other OS isn't hard to find out these days. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <redacted>
Patch applied, thanks Rolf.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2007-02-26 23:48:22
From: Rolf Eike Beer <redacted> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:59:34 +0100
[IPX] Remove ancient changelog Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <redacted>
Also applied, thanks Rolf.