On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 18:36 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:10:06AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > http://mosquitonet.Stanford.EDU/strip.html no longer exists. > > > > Since the MAINTAINERS entry is now completely empty it's also removed. > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Any reason why we should not just remove the driver? Subject to the 2-kernel-release removal notice requirement or outright? It looks like it was more of a research project than anything that shipped too, and likely didn't get used by more than a handful of people. According to wikipedia [1] there were ~8,000 users of Ricochet in Denver and San Diego as of early 2006, how many of them might actually be using the STRIP driver we don't know. Denver apparently just got shut down in late March [2]. Also, apparently if you bought your modem after 2000 [3] [4], it doesn't support the peer-to-peer stuff that STRIP uses. Thus, it seems (?) you're limited to using the 28.8kbps modems with the STRIP driver. Modems registered after 2000 may work in peer-to-peer with STRIP in close proximity though. So we can probably count the # of users on one amputated hand. Not sure if that qualifies for removal or what. Deprecation at least? Dan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_%28internet_service%29 [2] http://margysmusingsindenvercolorado.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-more-wireless-service.html [3] http://www.enlightenment-engine.com/eeng/Ricochet/Experiences%20with%20Metricom.htm [4] http://illtel.denver.co.us/~abelits/metricom/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
