From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Doug Brown <doug@schmorgal.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>,
"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: appletalk: remove Apple/Farallon LocalTalk PC support
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 21:21:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0xmXYU5iNki3BX25J73jcy+xJ=bf67G6PqAHjRwckFRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0078ff43-f9fa-1deb-b64d-170d3d93ee6f@workingcode.com>
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:11 PM James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/11/22 04:23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > indication of appletalk ever being supported there, this all looks
> > IPv4/IPv6 specific. There was support for PPP_IPX until it was
> > dropped this year (the kernel side got removed in 2018), but never
> > for PPP_AT.
> > Adding Paul Mackerras to Cc, he might know more about it.
>
> I waited a bit before chipping in, as I think Paul would know more.
>
> The ATCP stuff was in at least a few vendor branches, but I don't think
> it ever made it into the main distribution. These commits seem to be
> where the (disabled by default) references to it first appeared:
>
> commit 50c9469f0f683c7bf8ebad9b7f97bfc03c6a4122
> Author: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Date: Tue Mar 4 03:32:37 1997 +0000
>
> add defs for appletalk
>
> commit 01548ef15e0f41f9f6af33860fb459a7f578f004
> Author: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Date: Tue Mar 4 03:41:17 1997 +0000
>
> connect time stuff gone to auth.c,
> don't die on EINTR from opening tty,
> ignore NCP packets during authentication,
> fix recursive signal problem in kill_my_pg
Right, I had seen those in the git history, but neither of them actually
does anything with appletak.
> The disabled-by-default parts were likely support contributions for
> those other distributions. (Very likely in BSD.)
>
> I would've thought AppleTalk was completely gone by now, and I certainly
> would not be sad to see the dregs removed from pppd, but there was a
> patch release on the netatalk package just last month, so what do I know?
I think netatalk 3.0 dropped all appletalk protocol stuff a long time ago and
only supports AFP over IP.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-12 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-09 15:01 [PATCH net-next] net: appletalk: remove Apple/Farallon LocalTalk PC support Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-09 17:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-09 17:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-10 2:34 ` Doug Brown
2022-05-10 6:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-11 0:20 ` Doug Brown
2022-05-11 8:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-12 18:11 ` James Carlson
2022-05-12 19:21 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2022-05-12 19:28 ` Doug Brown
2022-05-11 12:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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