From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it time to remove decnet support from the kernel?
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:38:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220729213814.7aed45d2@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220729211258.52c3ab81@hermes.local>
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:12:58 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> We removed decnet support from iproute2 several years ago.
> Seriously doubt anyone is still using decnet on Linux except in a computer history museum.
>
> Like IPX, propose it gets moved to staging in next LTS?
I'd just delete it. But the cost to benefit of keeping it in stable
for a while is subjective (and the considerations theoretical given
how little experience we have deleting stuff) -- so whichever way you
prefer.
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2022-07-30 4:12 Is it time to remove decnet support from the kernel? Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-30 4:38 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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