netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: remove obsolete networking/multicast.txt file

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Message-Id: <20130121.135425.1070170828557144836.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:54:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: remove obsolete
 networking/multicast.txt file

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:17:41 -0500

> The original intent of this file was to list limitations in
> drivers/hardware relating to multicast use, back when some
> modest hardware from the early 1990s did not support things
> we might take for granted today.
> 
> I was intending to delete some now-gone MCA/token ring entries
> in this file, but once I opened it, I found it only contained
> information on the earliest (pre-2000) linux networking drivers.
> 
> Checking the git history shows that the file hasn't been touched
> since 2005.  Clearly nobody is actively consulting this file
> as a meaningful reference.
> 
> Rather than add a "YES YES YES" line for all of the drivers we
> currently have, lets just take advantage of the fact that nobody
> is using the file to delete it.
> 
> This has the side benefit of not having to do a line-by-line
> deletion of the file content as each older driver is expired.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Applied, thanks Paul.
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