Re: TP4 over IP and EON support to be removed in -current/6.0

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Fri Nov 14 2008 at 20:32:22 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> To help make the kernel locking simplier/better, a major source of  
> pain will be removed.
> This is the capability of using TP4 over IP and IP over CLNP or CLNP  
> over IP.  No longer
> will netinet and netiso be able to directly call each other.
> 
> I doubt this will significantly inconvenience anyone but here's a  
> head up anyways.
> 

Awesome, thanks!  I don't really know offhand what the locking benefits
are, but I'm much more grateful for the modularity implications of this.

(I wonder if this is a good time to bring up the old "should we just
let non-inet domains bite it"-question?)