From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
arnd@arndb.de, john.calixto@modsystems.com, xemul@parallels.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] econet: remove ancient bug ridden protocol
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 01:35:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120518.013546.737313304742968032.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120518042301.GA723@srcf.ucam.org>
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 05:23:01 +0100
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:59:51PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
>> The ancient Econet protocol should go. Most of the bug fixes in recent
>> years have been fixing security vulnerabilities. The hardware hasn't
>> been made since 1981, it is only interesting as an archeological curiosity.
>
> Pedantry - the hardware was introduced in 1981, it was still being made
> into at least the 90s. Still probably time for it to die, though.
Patch applied with this pedantic adjustment :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-18 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-18 3:59 Stephen Hemminger
2012-05-18 4:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-18 5:35 ` David Miller [this message]
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