[PATCH 0/2] Remove outdated information from IPX

[PATCH 0/2] Remove outdated information from IPX

[Rolf Eike Beer]

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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

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[PATCH 1/2][IPX] Remove outdated information from Kconfig

[Rolf Eike Beer]

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 <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

---
commit 0566e9a5f19ca9fe1982e2b4a89aff131cc6525b
tree 20b72b4e347a0ff926f82188bb296c2b3a8911f5
parent ce4e52a8be675c1724fa3af503ff1c75478ff2e8
author Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:43:37 +0100
committer Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> 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

[PATCH 2/2][IPX] Remove ancient changelog

[Rolf Eike Beer]

[IPX] Remove ancient changelog

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

---
commit 6b8afc66b9d6893d3fa292b75769b58539836ff3
tree 9078513bb6727e61aee238da153d9b3358a1d817
parent 0566e9a5f19ca9fe1982e2b4a89aff131cc6525b
author Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:45:03 +0100
committer Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> 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)

Re: [PATCH 1/2][IPX] Remove outdated information from Kconfig

[David Miller]

From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
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 <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

Patch applied, thanks Rolf.

Re: [PATCH 2/2][IPX] Remove ancient changelog

[David Miller]

From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:59:34 +0100

> [IPX] Remove ancient changelog
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

Also applied, thanks Rolf.