From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:19:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171113071953.GA4352@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171113063009.GB1986@nanopsycho>
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 07:30:09AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:02:14PM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
> >Support for Decnet has been orphaned for many years.
> >In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday
> >cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>
> Why not just remove it in the same way tokenring was removed in the
> past? I fear that in staging, this will rot forever for no good reason.
No, I will not let it stay around for long :)
Stephen, no objection from me for this, but can you add a TODO file much
like drivers/staging/irda/TODO has?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-13 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 20:02 [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-13 6:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-11-13 7:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20171113071953.GA4352@kroah.com \
--to=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=devel@driverdev.osuosl.org \
--cc=jiri@resnulli.us \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=stephen@networkplumber.org \
--cc=sthemmin@microsoft.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.