From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 5:42:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A30337B401; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E1343FAF; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h25DgmA7028534; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 06:42:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 06:40:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030305.064000.31317673.imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of netns - politically correct version From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030305030708.A21014@FreeBSD.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030305084442.037e9fa0@gid.co.uk> <3E65BB24.3E37D90D@mindspring.com> <20030305030708.A21014@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG De: Terry Lambert [ Data: 2003-03-05 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Removal of netns - politically correct version ] > On the other hand, there's no compelling reason to dike it out, > if it can be made to work. I would argue that ISA support is > more or less just as obsolete, as is 486 support, as is the F00F > bug workaround, as is ... a lot of code that's still there. ISA support is not obsolete. All new PCs still have ISA busses. They might not have ISA Expansion Bus Slots, but they all[*] still connect their serial ports, parallel ports, and mouse/keyboard ports via ISA. Warner [*] well, except for the legacy free ones, which aren't many. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message