[HEADSUP] IPX and NWFS to be killed in -current.

[Scott Long]

Boris Popov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:56:21PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
>>
>>FYI, I have a substantial work in progress in the netperf branch to bring
>>fine-grained locking to IPX/SPX, as well as to clean up a number of
>>elements of its implementions (for example, moving the the queue(9) 
>>macros.  While I'm currently a bit stalled on it due to being overwhelmed
>>at work (etc), my hope was to get the Giant-free IPX pieces working early
>>next year.  I think there's a reference to this on the SMPng page showing
> 
> 
> 	These are perfect news.  As the former active maintainer of IPX
> protocol stack and the author of NWFS I'm receive notable amount of complains
> about IPX support in 5.X as people upgrade boxes from 4.X. For some
> people it works but nwfs doesn't and vise versa.
> 
> 	Addressing phk's request about removal: there was exactly 93
> questions related to ipx/nwfs in November.  This indeed encourages me to
> fix them.  Although, I can't promise anything at this point because
> earning on life doesn't left much free time these days.
> 

Boris,

This is wonderful news too!  If you have any questions or need help with 
testing, please don't hesitate to ask.

Scott