From: Doug Brown <doug@schmorgal.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
Cc: 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 12:28:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc47ac41-c9d8-7952-1ad3-bd651db0c254@schmorgal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0xmXYU5iNki3BX25J73jcy+xJ=bf67G6PqAHjRwckFRA@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/12/2022 12:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:11 PM James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
That's right. The older netatalk 2.x branch has a few different branches
on GitHub that are being maintained to allow AppleTalk connectivity with
older Macs through Ethernet (or LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridges), so
people are still actively using AppleTalk with Ethernet.
BTW, I messed up my quoting in my previous message so it was hard to see
part of my reply -- but I agree that everything in drivers/net/appletalk
could go away except for the Kconfig entry for CONFIG_ATALK. And dev.c
and the other LocalTalk-specific bits in net/appletalk could go away.
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2022-05-11 8:23 ` [PATCH net-next] net: appletalk: remove Apple/Farallon LocalTalk PC support Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-12 18:11 ` James Carlson
2022-05-12 19:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-12 19:28 ` Doug Brown [this message]
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