From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:28:23 -0800 Message-ID: <20171127082823.4d19c34e@xeon-e3> References: <20171126201118.6550-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <20171126.171921.712591446806070147.davem@davemloft.net> <20171126230151.5cb21f52@xeon-e3> <20171127.230445.2275411297716757526.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f175.google.com ([209.85.192.175]:36812 "EHLO mail-pf0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753035AbdK0Q2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:28:32 -0500 Received: by mail-pf0-f175.google.com with SMTP id i15so17597306pfa.3 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:28:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20171127.230445.2275411297716757526.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 23:04:45 +0900 (KST) David Miller wrote: > 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. What about IPX?