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Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs



On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote:
> Asking for ARCNET support in the absence of hardware to test on,
> however, is really asking for something quite different.  Since you
> can't make more than small, mechanical changes to anything and expect
> it to work without testing (and I'm not even sure about the small,
> mechanical changes) what is being asked instead is that nothing be
> done that requires changes to the ARCNET code on the disk right
> now, nor the framework it relies on to operate, while making it
> someone else's problem to figure out how to deal with that constraint.
> This isn't fair, and I don't think it has any possibility of working.

Amen.

Joerg


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