Re: Time to retire some ancient network pseudo-interfaces?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Sep 10, 2018, at 5:56 AM, Tyler Retzlaff <rtr%crt0.ca@localhost> wrote:
> 
> There was mild objection at the time in that the older drivers presented examples in the variations of hardware that gave us enlightenment in to how to provide network driver interfaces.

There's always the Attic...

> Last I recall someone was going to dig up hardware and test. Without positive agreement about the removal I didn't proceed with removal.

At some point, though, someone has do do more than agree to "dig up hardware and test".  If the code needs a major overhaul in order for the system as a whole to make progress and no one is willing to do that, well...

> 
> On 2018-09-05 09:30 AM, Maxime Villard wrote:
>> Le 05/09/2018 à 18:02, Jason Thorpe a écrit :
>>> Yes, I think I mentioned that netnatm could / should be retired, as well as
>>> the Midway ATM driver.
>> 
>> I see that now, so let's do it. Someone objecting? It was already discussed
>> three years ago for the most part.
>> 
>> Removing netnatm implies removing the 'midway' driver, if_atmsubr.c, and
>> sys/netnatm/; all three are noted as obstacles in TODO.smpnet.
> 

-- thorpej