From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9EEC3F6B0 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2022 02:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238480AbiHACUp (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:20:45 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41052 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238437AbiHACUm (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:20:42 -0400 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org (sin.source.kernel.org [145.40.73.55]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B1F912ABB; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 038D8CE0F0E; Mon, 1 Aug 2022 02:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6678CC433D6; Mon, 1 Aug 2022 02:20:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1659320435; bh=8+H9rIFxtVXMLizyjzjdfAN5H4rrg+kZwIAaizE2yzQ=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=qbHrryCgLDT40La7RvFNZvpswRq37MotxkwMrnSgvThg10C5P0Wuvbhb+kgAW2IV/ 7l9AinfPyV+s0mp74V/lgRfNNWtXpVcoBhJZq6nNU0+Y+uztq9mnx8qZUNJtGfOmBy z9E4MQQrlRBjePrgwRm5wkSRkYp1eh67rIz1eWdsjiCrWjEg7KPlp9UuuRYFvVdF4H AG5ozENZQdt/UaSewznbAtfMQ42eqJ8Aijum4zvDsoNX31z1VJqC3WWFB8VpixZRdN eZ7vzT+qAn+vAnbV2YEMFy6M4I4SzFXOjvGZzYicWbyrhI6mijE08eH8oBJNpMbil5 HrwTfHKih8DWg== Message-ID: <65fb5e26-2000-ffa5-5a3b-21db87da9e3b@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 20:20:31 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove DECNET support from kernel Content-Language: en-US To: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Michael Ellerman , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Florian Westphal , Borislav Petkov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Kees Cook , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Damien Le Moal , Xin Long , Akhmat Karakotov , Antoine Tenart , Hans de Goede , Juergen Gross , Jens Axboe , Xie Yongji , Chen Yu , William Breathitt Gray , Suma Hegde , =?UTF-8?Q?Pali_Roh=c3=a1r?= , Jeff Layton , Chuck Lever , Arnd Bergmann , Alexandre Ghiti , Scott Wood , Paul Gortmaker , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Menglong Dong , Petr Machata , Daniel Borkmann , Roopa Prabhu , Yajun Deng , Yuwei Wang , Shakeel Butt , Soheil Hassas Yeganeh , Kuniyuki Iwashima , Marc Kleine-Budde , Stefano Garzarella , Alexei Starovoitov , Wang Qing , Yu Zhe , Benjamin Poirier , Victor Erminpour , "GONG, Ruiqi" , "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: <20220731190646.97039-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> From: David Ahern In-Reply-To: <20220731190646.97039-1-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 7/31/22 1:06 PM, 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. > And the documentation link on Sourceforge says it is abandoned there. > > Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > --- Acked-by: David Ahern