non-IP protocol support

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Saturday 08 April 2006 5:08 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   was there any consensus on what to do regarding non-IP protocol
> > support in BB?  as regards this excerpt from
> > networking/interface.c:
>
> We care about IPV4, and have a separate config for IPV6.  We might
> also care about Unix domain sockets, although I was unaware that
> ifconfig had anything to do with that.
>
> Beyond that, not really, no.
>
> > #if HAVE_AFUNIX
> >         unix_aftype.title = _("UNIX Domain");
> > #endif

> These symbols are largely hardcoded at the top of
> networking/interface.c.  Any equivalent of #ifdef 0 code can be
> removed.  (If it's meant as a comment, add a comment.)  When we need
> something, we can always add more code.
>
> >   is there really any serious work being done on IPX or Appletalk
> > DDP support?  if not, perhaps a lot of that stuff can be tossed.
> > (certainly, most of those protocols don't even have a
> > configuration selection so there's not much value to the code
> > being there.)
>
> It can be cleaned out.

i can take a *crack* at this but if someone is more the official
maintainer of the networking code and wants to do it, that's fine with
me.

rday