Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Proposed removal of DECnet support (was:Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2:BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten) | From | Philipp Schafft <> | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:14:58 +0100 |
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reflum,
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 01:23 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 20:50 +0100, Philipp Schafft wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 14:52 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > [...] > > > It is good to know that people are still using the Linux DECnet code > > > too. It has lived far beyond the time when I'd envisioned it still being > > > useful :-) > > > > There are still some people interested in it. Btw. on Debian popcon > > counts 5356 users. > > This is grossly misleading. Here's the historical graph showing <100 > installations of libdnet until early 2011: > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libdnet
Maybe my statement was missleading. popcon shows 5356 installs. This includes real users and non-real users. Both groups *may* be affected by droping the kernel module (in diffrent ways).
> For some reason (a joke?) roaraudio has DECnet > support and its packages depend on libdnet.
Maybe just because it is usefull for the RoarAudio project.
Anyway, don't take the number too important. It was just a minor note.
-- Philipp. (Rah of PH2) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |