netatm: plan for removal unless an active maintainer is found

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

> In order to begin to merge revised socket/pcb code, required to fix a number 
> of current races manifesting in the TCP code under load, and required for 
> breaking out the tcbinfo lock which is a significant bottleneck in high 
> performance TCP and multi-processor TCP scalability, I will disconnect 
> netatm and dependent components from the build on April 1, 2006.  At that 
> point, I will merge updated socket and pcb reference counting.

Per this e-mail (and the associated thread), socket/pcb reference counting 
changes have been committed that likely render netatm further disfunctional.

Robert N M Watson