From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 23:04:45 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <20171127.230445.2275411297716757526.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20171126201118.6550-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <20171126.171921.712591446806070147.davem@davemloft.net> <20171126230151.5cb21f52@xeon-e3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: stephen@networkplumber.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:51428 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752557AbdK0OEu (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:04:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20171126230151.5cb21f52@xeon-e3> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:01:51 -0800 > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:19:21 -0500 (EST) > David Miller wrote: > >> From: Stephen Hemminger >> 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 >> >> 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. > > I agree that it is probably too early to remove support completely. > Instead, why not just mark IPX and DecNET as deprecated and warn users > for a couple of releases. People are using decnet. Last time I broke it there were users who complained.