distro: remove src/backends

It is no longer used. Also remove an obsolete comment about backends
in nm-system.h.

21 files changed, 0 insertions, 600 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 903c61e4..46640b1b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -778,7 +778,6 @@ src/settings/plugins/keyfile/tests/keyfiles/Makefile
 src/settings/plugins/example/Makefile
 src/settings/tests/Makefile
 src/wimax/Makefile
-src/backends/Makefile
 libnm-util/libnm-util.pc
 libnm-util/Makefile
 libnm-util/tests/Makefile
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 0f2d2dd1..b155209c 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ SUBDIRS= \
 	ip6-manager \
 	supplicant-manager \
 	ppp-manager \
-	backends \
 	dnsmasq-manager \
 	modem-manager \
 	bluez-manager \
@@ -321,7 +320,6 @@ NetworkManager_LDADD = \
 	./wifi/libwifi-utils.la \
 	./firewall-manager/libfirewall-manager.la \
 	./settings/libsettings.la \
-	./backends/libnmbackend.la \
 	$(top_builddir)/libnm-util/libnm-util.la \
 	$(DBUS_LIBS) \
 	$(GLIB_LIBS) \
diff --git a/src/backends/Makefile.am b/src/backends/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 647e5e5b..00000000
--- a/src/backends/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-INCLUDES = \
-	-I${top_srcdir} \
-	-I${top_srcdir}/src/logging \
-	-I${top_srcdir}/include \
-	-I${top_builddir}/include \
-	-I${top_srcdir}/src \
-	-I${top_srcdir}/libnm-util
-
-noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libnmbackend.la
-
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES = \
-	NetworkManagerGeneric.c \
-	NetworkManagerGeneric.h \
-	nm-backend.h
-
-libnmbackend_la_LIBADD =
-
-if TARGET_REDHAT
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerRedHat.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_SUSE
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerSuSE.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_GENTOO
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerGentoo.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_DEBIAN
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerDebian.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_SLACKWARE
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerSlackware.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_ARCH
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerArch.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_PALDO
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerPaldo.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_FRUGALWARE
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerFrugalware.c
-libnmbackend_la_LIBADD += -lfwnetconfig -lfwutil
-endif
-
-if TARGET_MANDRIVA
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerMandriva.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_PARDUS
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerPardus.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_LINEXA
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerLinexa.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_EXHERBO
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerExherbo.c
-endif
-
-if TARGET_LFS
-libnmbackend_la_SOURCES += NetworkManagerLFS.c
-endif
-
-libnmbackend_la_LIBADD += \
-	$(top_builddir)/src/logging/libnm-logging.la \
-	$(LIBNL_LIBS) \
-	$(DBUS_LIBS) \
-	$(GLIB_LIBS)
-
-libnmbackend_la_CPPFLAGS = \
-	$(LIBNL_CFLAGS) \
-	$(DBUS_CFLAGS) \
-	$(GLIB_CFLAGS) \
-	-DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED \
-	-DBINDIR=\"$(bindir)\" \
-	-DDATADIR=\"$(datadir)\" \
-	-DSYSCONFDIR=\"$(sysconfdir)\"
-
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerArch.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerArch.c
deleted file mode 100644
index bbf3da49..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerArch.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Backend implementation for the Arch Linux distribution http://www.archlinux.org
- * 
- * Tor Krill <tor@krill.nu> and Will Rea <sillywilly@gmail.com>
- *
- * Updated by Wael Nasreddine <gandalf@siemens-mobiles.org>
- *
- * Updated by Valentine Sinitsyn <e_val@inbox.ru>
- * 
- * Heavily based on NetworkManagerDebian.c by Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
- *
- * Heavily based on NetworkManagerRedhat.c by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Tom Parker
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Matthew Garrett
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerDebian.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerDebian.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cae4434..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerDebian.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
- *
- * Heavily based on NetworkManagerRedhat.c by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Tom Parker
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Matthew Garrett
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
-#include "nm-logging.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerExherbo.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerExherbo.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 55ee553b..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerExherbo.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- * Dan Willemsen <dan@willemsen.us>
- * Robert Paskowitz
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Dan Willemsen
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Robert Paskowitz
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
-#include "nm-logging.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerFrugalware.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerFrugalware.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e1fea23..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerFrugalware.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Implementation for the Frugalware Linux distro - http://www.frugalware.org
- *
- * Alex Smith <alex.extreme2@gmail.com>
- *
- * Based on NetworkManagerSlackware.c by Narayan Newton <narayan_newton@yahoo.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2006 Alex Smith
- */
-
-/* Provided by the frugalwareutils package on Frugalware */
-#include <libfwnetconfig.h> 
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerGeneric.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerGeneric.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e729ad1..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerGeneric.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2006 Timothee Lecomte <timothee.lecomte@ens.fr>
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <signal.h>
-#include <arpa/inet.h>
-#include <string.h>
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "nm-system.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
-#include "nm-logging.h"
-#include "nm-netlink-compat.h"
-#include "nm-netlink-monitor.h"
-#include "nm-netlink-utils.h"
-
-/* Because of a bug in libnl, rtnl.h should be included before route.h */
-#include <netlink/route/rtnl.h>
-
-#include <netlink/route/addr.h>
-#include <netlink/netlink.h>
-
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerGeneric.h b/src/backends/NetworkManagerGeneric.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 0412a27d..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerGeneric.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Timothee Lecomte <timothee.lecomte@ens.fr>
- *
- * Heavily based on NetworkManagerSystem.h by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifndef NM_GENERIC_H
-#define NM_GENERIC_H
-
-#include "nm-backend.h"
-
-#endif  /* NM_GENERIC_H */
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c
deleted file mode 100644
index bde272d1..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- * Dan Willemsen <dan@willemsen.us>
- * Robert Paskowitz
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Dan Willemsen
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Robert Paskowitz
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include <glib.h>
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
-#include "nm-logging.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerLFS.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerLFS.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 54f72815..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerLFS.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Backend implementation for the Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
- *
- * Wayne Blaszczyk <wblaszcz@bigpond.net.au>
- * Armin K. <krejzi@email.com>
- *
- * Heavily based on NetworkManagerRedhat.c by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Tom Parker
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Matthew Garrett
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerLinexa.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerLinexa.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cae4434..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerLinexa.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
- *
- * Heavily based on NetworkManagerRedhat.c by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Tom Parker
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Matthew Garrett
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
-#include "nm-logging.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerMandriva.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerMandriva.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a665154..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerMandriva.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- * Per Øyvind Karlsen <peroyvind@mandriva.org>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2008 Per Øyvind Karlsen
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerPaldo.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerPaldo.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 538cb8f3..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerPaldo.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Jürg Billeter <juerg@paldo.org>
- *
- * Heavily based on NetworkManagerRedhat.c by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2006 Jürg Billeter
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
-#include "nm-logging.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerPardus.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerPardus.c
deleted file mode 100644
index fb5732db..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerPardus.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Ozan Caglayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 RedHat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2009 TUBITAK/UEKAE
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerRedHat.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerRedHat.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c4a8518..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerRedHat.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerSlackware.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerSlackware.c
deleted file mode 100644
index b8a631b3..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerSlackware.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Narayan Newton <narayan_newton@yahoo.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 RedHat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2004 Narayan Newton
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/NetworkManagerSuSE.c b/src/backends/NetworkManagerSuSE.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 4042e62a..00000000
--- a/src/backends/NetworkManagerSuSE.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
- * Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
- * Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2004 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- * (C) Copyright 2005-2006 SuSE GmbH
- */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-#include "NetworkManagerGeneric.h"
-#include "NetworkManagerUtils.h"
-#include "nm-logging.h"
diff --git a/src/backends/nm-backend.h b/src/backends/nm-backend.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 34750d2d..00000000
--- a/src/backends/nm-backend.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
-/* NetworkManager -- Network link manager
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2011 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifndef NM_BACKEND_H
-#define NM_BACKEND_H
-
-/* Random disto-specific stuff */
-
-#endif  /* NM_BACKEND_H */
diff --git a/src/generated/Makefile.am b/src/generated/Makefile.am
index 252973cd..73326446 100644
--- a/src/generated/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/generated/Makefile.am
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ nm_daemon_all_sources = \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/dhcp-manager/*.[ch] \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/ip6-manager/*.[ch] \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/supplicant-manager/*.[ch] \
-	$(top_srcdir)/src/backends/*.[ch] \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/ppp-manager/*.[ch] \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/dnsmasq-manager/*.[ch] \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/modem-manager/*.[ch] \
@@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ INCLUDES = \
 	-I${top_srcdir}/src/dhcp-manager \
 	-I${top_srcdir}/src/ip6-manager \
 	-I${top_srcdir}/src/supplicant-manager \
-	-I${top_srcdir}/src/backends \
 	-I${top_srcdir}/src/ppp-manager \
 	-I${top_srcdir}/src/dnsmasq-manager \
 	-I${top_srcdir}/src/modem-manager \
diff --git a/src/nm-system.h b/src/nm-system.h
index 1acb8853..102d116b 100644
--- a/src/nm-system.h
+++ b/src/nm-system.h
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@
 #include "nm-setting-bond.h"
 #include "nm-setting-vlan.h"
 
-/* Prototypes for system/distribution dependent functions,
- * implemented in the backend files in backends/ directory
- */
-
 gboolean        nm_system_iface_flush_routes         (int ifindex, int family);
 
 gboolean		nm_system_replace_default_ip4_route   (int ifindex,