From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx155.postini.com [74.125.245.155]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19D256B0062 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 05:15:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Proposed removal of DECnet support (was:Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2:BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten) From: Philipp Schafft In-Reply-To: <1323048232.7454.161.camel@deadeye> References: <1322664737.2755.17.camel@menhir> <20111204195055.A36077AD9C@priderock.keep-cool.org> <1323048232.7454.161.camel@deadeye> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4m5XleMXEcnGSo0Wc4LW" Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:14:58 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111205101503.1DE687AD9C@priderock.keep-cool.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Steven Whitehouse , mike.gair@tatasteel.com, Chrissie Caulfield , Christoph Lameter , David Miller , Eric Dumazet , Sasha Levin , Linux-DECnet user , linux-kernel , linux-mm , Matt Mackall , netdev , Pekka Enberg , RoarAudio --=-4m5XleMXEcnGSo0Wc4LW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable reflum, On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 01:23 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 20:50 +0100, Philipp Schafft wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 14:52 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > [...] > > > It is good to know that people are still using the Linux DECnet code > > > too. It has lived far beyond the time when I'd envisioned it still be= ing > > > useful :-) > >=20 > > There are still some people interested in it. Btw. on Debian popcon > > counts 5356 users. >=20 > This is grossly misleading. Here's the historical graph showing <100 > installations of libdnet until early 2011: > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=3Dlibdnet Maybe my statement was missleading. popcon shows 5356 installs. This includes real users and non-real users. Both groups *may* be affected by droping the kernel module (in diffrent ways). > For some reason (a joke?) roaraudio has DECnet > support and its packages depend on libdnet. Maybe just because it is usefull for the RoarAudio project. Anyway, don't take the number too important. It was just a minor note. --=20 Philipp. (Rah of PH2) --=-4m5XleMXEcnGSo0Wc4LW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Because it's your freedom iQEVAwUATtyZomCSpmW8W5B8AQJbVgf9H9bZV2nL4Rai9Umjezw58apQQVEDJtoE IH2Kn4GJ0ZCJgr23rtuf98e000wLcIIOJ052Ugydla/4vBp1aJF3vqd4y1ydPpnL OF2hLDdECHmOWwVXI3ZOfnOEzhToROjvaspr0DjAC0EhopZm5jnnTpGPk5DTex0p vW0lx/EmE6S966aROZHCjxIMBbVQM79I8ted9x5cWiFnf0N0AopLAMfXDfVDkBCn X04FYzqv8kuAIocLKMp1HelzmN9IHa8EuJ45K4+9Rl8gAd7RaAfNWZi6iIakmjgj KjVil1ME21LNcjhQnLMy4mOcqGBbDkASCefcuycWVpBJalvRbsaJ5g== =3tG3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4m5XleMXEcnGSo0Wc4LW-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org