netdev - Re: Does anyone use Appletalk?

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 13:19:14 +0100
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does anyone use Appletalk?

Hi Adrian,

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:55 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 11:23 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Appletalk, cops, and ipdpp are being removed.
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1dab47139e6118a420acec8426a860ea4b40c379
> >
> > Please shout if you have any objections.
>
> Isn't that a bit late?

It can always be reverted...

> I'm a bit annoyed that Arnd doesn't announce such removal requests
> on the proper lists? This is something that should be asked among
> the retro community, not on some random Linux mailing list.
>
> And, FWIW, I am against removing AppleTalk because it actually allows
> you to build your own TimeMachine server using Linux [1]. It's really
> useful for backing up macOS machines over the network.

Thanks, good to know!

> > [1] https://dgross.ca/blog/linux-time-machine-server/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds