From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2BBC2D0A3 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 05:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5687320867 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 05:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726156AbgKFFwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2020 00:52:30 -0500 Received: from mxout70.expurgate.net ([194.37.255.70]:57785 "EHLO mxout70.expurgate.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725440AbgKFFw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2020 00:52:29 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 506 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:52:29 EST Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by relay.expurgate.net with smtp (Exim 4.90) (envelope-from ) id 1kauXU-0006e1-VJ; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:43:57 +0100 Received: from [195.243.126.94] (helo=securemail.tdt.de) by relay.expurgate.net with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90) (envelope-from ) id 1kauXT-0002S9-Jk; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:43:55 +0100 Received: from securemail.tdt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by securemail.tdt.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92E924004B; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:43:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.dev.tdt.de (unknown [10.2.4.42]) by securemail.tdt.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFCF240049; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:43:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.dev.tdt.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.dev.tdt.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87F120049; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:43:53 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:43:53 +0100 From: Martin Schiller To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Xie He , Jakub Kicinski , "David S. Miller" , Networking , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Andrew Hendry , linux-x25@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: x25_asy: Delete the x25_asy driver Organization: TDT AG In-Reply-To: References: <20201105073434.429307-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com> Message-ID: <927918413d7c2e515e61d751b2424886@dev.tdt.de> X-Sender: ms@dev.tdt.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.15 X-purgate-ID: 151534::1604641436-000013A4-FE3D097D/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate: clean Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2020-11-05 16:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > ... > Adding Martin Schiller and Andrew Hendry, plus the linux-x25 mailing > list to Cc. When I last looked at the wan drivers, I think I concluded > that this should still be kept around, but I do not remember why. > OTOH if it was broken for a long time, that is a clear indication that > it was in fact unused. As Xie has already mentioned, the linux-x25 mailing list unfortunately is broken for a long time. Maybe David could have a look at this. I still use the X.25 subsystem together with the hdlc-x25 driver and as I wrote some time ago this will continue for some time. I'm also still contributing patches for it (even if only drop by drop). But I have never used the x25_asy driver. > ... > > Hopefully Martin or Andrew can provide a definite Ack or Nack on this. > ACK from my side, even if I'm a bit sorry about the work of Xie. Acked-by: Martin Schiller