From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: move decnet to staging Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:32:58 -0800 Message-ID: <1510601578.10883.82.camel@perches.com> References: <20171113171142.19476-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, Stephen Hemminger To: Stephen Hemminger , davem@davemloft.net, pablo@netfilter.org, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, fw@strlen.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171113171142.19476-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 09:11 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Support for Decnet has been orphaned for some time. > In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday > cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal. [] > diff --git a/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO b/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO [] > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ > +The DecNet code will be removed soon from the kernel tree as it is old, > +obsolete, and buggy. Old and obsolete, well OK, but what's buggy about decnet? https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=decnet Zarro Boogs found.