From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Remove DECnet support from kernel
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:09:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10091e35-491a-c10f-35ec-044357f09e3e@blackwall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220818004357.375695-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
On 18/08/2022 03:43, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
> from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
> history museum not in Linux kernel.
>
> It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
> for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
> Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.
>
> Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
> This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
> for AF_DECNET.
>
> The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
> current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Incorporates feedback from the initial RFC.
> The MPLS neighbour table to family table is left alone.
>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-18 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-18 0:43 [PATCH net-next] Remove DECnet support from kernel Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-18 7:09 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov [this message]
2022-08-22 14:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2023-01-09 7:04 ` Jiri Slaby
2023-01-09 8:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2023-01-09 8:34 ` Jiri Slaby
2023-01-09 8:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
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