From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20012 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2004 23:13:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20004 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 23:13:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 23:13:08 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56372B8F; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:13:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40159F02.2030809@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:13:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Cc: "J.T. Conklin" Subject: Re: [patch] Delete "remote cisco" (aka the "mutant remote protocol") References: <3FF9D6B1.7020702@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00676.txt.bz2 > Hello, > > This deletes the cisco specific code in "remote.c". Several comments here: > > - at the time of the original commit (GDB's repository was still Cygnus internal) it received the title "mutant remote protocol" since it was giving off an odor that's now commonly refered to as "eau de HP Merge". > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/1999-q3/msg00147.html > > - even CISCO think the code should be deleted > I'm reliably informed (abet more than a year ago) that even CISCO would prefer to see this code removed. > > - I've been warning people of this for >1 year > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-08/msg00071.html > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-08/msg00170.html > > I'm going to commit this in a few days once I've re-checked GDB with a non-mutant remote target. > > Only question, are there any bits that deserve to be retained? I've checked this in. Andrew > Index: doc/ChangeLog > 2004-01-05 Andrew Cagney > > * gdb.texinfo (Overview): Delete references to the cisco protocol > including the "N" response. > > 2004-01-05 Andrew Cagney > > * remote.c: Update copyright. > (echo_check, quit_flag, cisco_kernel_mode): Delete variables. > (minitelnet_return, tty_input, escape_count): Delete variables. > (remote_cisco_mode): Delete variable. > (remote_cisco_open, remote_cisco_close): Delete function. > (remote_cisco_mourn, remote_cisco_wait): Delete function. > (init_remote_cisco_ops): Delete function. > (_initialize_remote): Do not install "remote cisco" code. > (read_frame): Delete cisco specific code. > (remote_info_process): Delete function. > (remote_wait): Delete cisco specific code. > (remote_cisco_section_offsets): Delete function. > (remote_cisco_objfile_relocate): Delete function. > (remote_async_wait): Delete cisco specific code. > (minitelnet, readtty, readsocket): Delete function. >