From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
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Subject: RE: [RFC] Remove DECNET support from kernel
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 08:37:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c43f221d8e824cd2bf9746596423befc@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220731190646.97039-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
From: Stephen Hemminger
> Sent: 31 July 2022 20:06
> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>
> 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.
It was pretty much obsolete when I was writing ethernet drivers
in the early 1990's.
Sort of surprising support ever got into Linux in the first place!
Remember it requires the ethernet MAC address be set to a
locally assigned value that is the machine's 'node number'.
Does this remove some/most/all of the [gs]et_sockopt() calls
where the length is ignored/
David
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-01 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-31 19:06 [RFC] Remove DECNET support from kernel Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-31 19:15 ` Pali Rohár
2022-08-01 2:20 ` David Ahern
2022-08-01 8:37 ` David Laight [this message]
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