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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:19:21 -0500 (EST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:11:18 -0800

> Nothing has been done in Linux to maintain DECnet
> for years. The code is buggy and does not support net namespace.
> This patch removes all support of it from iproute2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Even if decnet had been moved to staging/ (which it hasn't) I'd say
this is entirely premature Stephen.

As long as the decnet code is upstream, you can't just yank away
support from the tooling.

Thank you.