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
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 <[email protected]>
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commit 0566e9a5f19ca9fe1982e2b4a89aff131cc6525b
tree 20b72b4e347a0ff926f82188bb296c2b3a8911f5
parent ce4e52a8be675c1724fa3af503ff1c75478ff2e8
author Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:43:37 +0100
committer Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> 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
[IPX] Remove ancient changelog
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
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commit 6b8afc66b9d6893d3fa292b75769b58539836ff3
tree 9078513bb6727e61aee238da153d9b3358a1d817
parent 0566e9a5f19ca9fe1982e2b4a89aff131cc6525b
author Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:45:03 +0100
committer Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> 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 ([email protected])
-
- Revision 0.41: 802.2TR removed ([email protected])
- Fixed connecting to primary net,
- Automatic binding on send & receive,
- Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]>
-
- 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 <[email protected]>,
- November, 2000
-
- Revision 043: Shared SKBs, don't mangle packets, some cleanups
- Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>,
- 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 ([email protected])
From: Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Patch applied, thanks Rolf.
From: Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:59:34 +0100
> [IPX] Remove ancient changelog
>
> Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
Also applied, thanks Rolf.