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[87.243.81.1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f28-20020a056402329c00b004418c7d633bsm594454eda.18.2022.08.18.00.09.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <10091e35-491a-c10f-35ec-044357f09e3e@blackwall.org> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:09:00 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Remove DECnet support from kernel Content-Language: en-US To: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Ahern , Jonathan Corbet , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Florian Westphal , Borislav Petkov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Andrew Morton , Neeraj Upadhyay , Randy Dunlap , Damien Le Moal , Muchun Song , Akhmat Karakotov , Antoine Tenart , Xin Long , Juergen Gross , Hans de Goede , Nathan Fontenot , "Martin K. Petersen" , Suma Hegde , Chen Yu , William Breathitt Gray , Xie Yongji , =?UTF-8?Q?Pali_Roh=c3=a1r?= , Arnd Bergmann , Alexandre Ghiti , Chuck Lever , Jeff Layton , Paul Gortmaker , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Menglong Dong , Petr Machata , Daniel Borkmann , Roopa Prabhu , Yuwei Wang , Shakeel Butt , Kuniyuki Iwashima , Kees Cook , Stefano Garzarella , Florian Fainelli , Wang Qing , Yu Zhe , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , open list , "open list:MIPS" , "open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" , "open list:NETFILTER" , "open list:NETFILTER" References: <20220818004357.375695-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov In-Reply-To: <20220818004357.375695-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.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 > Acked-by: David Ahern > --- > > Incorporates feedback from the initial RFC. > The MPLS neighbour table to family table is left alone. > Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov