On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 7:07 AM Arnd Bergmann <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Adding Martin Schiller and Andrew Hendry, plus the linux-x25 mailing > list to Cc.
The linux-x25 mail list has stopped working for a long time. > When I last looked at the wan drivers, I think I concluded > that this should still be kept around, but I do not remember why. I think we only decided that X.25 as a whole was still needed. We didn't decide that this particular driver was necessary. > Since you did the bugfix mentioned above, do you have an idea > when it could have last worked? I see it was originally merged in > linux-2.3.21, and Stephen Hemminger did a cleanup for > linux-2.6.0-rc3 that he apparently tested but also said "Not sure > if anyone ever uses this.". I think this driver never worked. Looking at the original code in Linux 2.1.31, it already has the problems I fixed in commit 8fdcabeac398. I guess when people (or bots) say they "tested", they have not necessarily used this driver to actually try transporting data. They may just have tested open/close, etc. to confirm that the particular problem/issue they saw had been fixed.
