From 7ce706b722a1e853981776b543630be43e5e7931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Noble <nnoble@google.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:17:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Removing libevent from third_party, as it's no longer
 necessary.

---
 .gitmodules          | 4 ----
 INSTALL              | 5 ++---
 third_party/libevent | 1 -
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 delete mode 160000 third_party/libevent

diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 9a287d9ee2..97b7197be3 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
 	path = third_party/protobuf
 	url = https://github.com/google/protobuf.git
 	branch = v3.0.0-alpha-1
-[submodule "third_party/libevent"]
-	path = third_party/libevent
-	url = https://github.com/libevent/libevent.git
-	branch = patches-2.0
 [submodule "third_party/gflags"]
 	path = third_party/gflags
 	url = https://code.google.com/p/gflags
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 20e27c1b80..a9b0b58aa6 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ Note that the Makefile makes it much easier for you to compile from sources
 if you were to clone recursively our git repository.
 
 
-grpc core currently depends on zlib and OpenSSL 1.0.2beta3, and also requires
-libevent2 for the Linux port.
+grpc core currently depends on zlib and OpenSSL 1.0.2beta3.
 
 grpc++'s tests depends on protobuf 3.0.0, gtests and gflags.
 
@@ -46,7 +45,7 @@ and let the Makefile build them itself.
 You may also install the dependencies yourself, from the sources, or from
 your distribution's package manager.
 
-The development packages needed for grpc are libevent2 under Linux, and zlib.
+The only development package needed for grpc is zlib.
 The development packages needed for grpc++'s tests are gtests, and gflags.
 
 To the best of our knowledge, no distribution has an OpenSSL package that
diff --git a/third_party/libevent b/third_party/libevent
deleted file mode 160000
index f7d92c6392..0000000000
--- a/third_party/libevent
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f7d92c63928a1460f3d99b9bc418bd3b686a0dca
-- 
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