From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: patch "staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory" added to staging-testing Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:51:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20181016115137.GA28641@kroah.com> References: <15396867728666@kroah.com> <249981aa5af26de07565946fbe806e3c01f26c07.camel@perches.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: LKML , netdev To: Joe Perches Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <249981aa5af26de07565946fbe806e3c01f26c07.camel@perches.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 04:43:30AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 12:46 +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directoryts > [] > > From dd71c89b2c1ae049d2018107e9d7a41261db3f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:45:13 +0200 > > Subject: staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory > > > > The IPX code was removed from staging back in November 2017, but the > > MAINTAINERS entry stuck around. Remove the invalid directory from the > > file as it does not actually point to anything anymore. > > As the uapi ipx file still exists but the functionality > has been removed, perhaps some compiler message like > > #pragma message "IPX functionality removed as of linux kernel v4.18" > > should be added to the uapi file. Eventually those files should be removed by the networking developers. It will take a bit of work for them to do it, it's not a straight "delete the file" work. thanks, greg k-h