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 41020CA5500 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238608AbjIMHmf (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:42:35 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40344 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238611AbjIMHme (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:42:34 -0400 Received: from mail-lj1-x22b.google.com (mail-lj1-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::22b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 89C17198B for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lj1-x22b.google.com with SMTP id 38308e7fff4ca-2bf78950354so66384101fa.1 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:42:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20230601.gappssmtp.com; s=20230601; t=1694590949; x=1695195749; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=/uDUXH0O3AIb1OxTjDi5wo6mK5XhaEZuHf0OE3SoZAc=; b=nOEL591VVboWJwP/lyqXlamL88IxBLgQP+YIcSRgWYK1+XzZz8g/ztYPfMgoIRYeZZ byHCpXMtSokHPNkC6lcD1frXoGZyJfHRoL5mrAijuB3YGEPmdbCQpqW+7YhektXHk2E5 aFwhrauQi3ipe2iliol+F7yO28rTVxXgT217knr542pBOX9at2H8ReVZIVIO5QVU3ex/ IOLg4lkcopEKp7ECToh5ImjgvYUp+Ue+5KvB8FGjVd0yq3E/juKSCbRwHU4zZDRjca4H 8pajuZyCNpqDx4h/0Jpf/sBlvZY34KAPrP4rbFfwUeFOo4/kAiJi3/ATZ7o1OJitKf51 WovQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1694590949; x=1695195749; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=/uDUXH0O3AIb1OxTjDi5wo6mK5XhaEZuHf0OE3SoZAc=; b=KemRnZOyEYE+lV1S1sEcrNZYQd8tSK5a9qmhb4aKqjJl7YL/z9yTKSPLuoVdYUVygl Et5eCqDAGqH+fCPpwIz91h/rQguEHqKm464WXeGyrm3DTewBSXD+2Z8C8tLwtnbMHHw4 gVgayp0tfDh8Q4sTodjxJkHkNvrQ76s4pn6r5wp4fI50JzQdjJx7woOSa94TumMGT8Yi qFzb6j42Ox/jyn5yNjh8vfKMILzXOeQ68QRmdV2nFLnf01rtON6ZcookrOztXRB+dJmc Hfg8ACoruGRzXY9LT2W/jOGl7RmxtQkiGsgNlGEZPtT7MbXaqyIEySE1yDlRu7RMe9S4 szXg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YwpOrn8zksXhZudIYHpxK0Jie1UqCcEOTV1M3+IRRYup1KZiWpA 3jv/BzFy6XafKzT7yHeTcUONClYg+jsP6IBp69PYTQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IHnvQh3XH7L3vRxz8HVVFiulQUlE/W22VDzAZxb3JEsdX8CqhZWOXHsgD57t2LXzIWJIj86pw== X-Received: by 2002:a2e:9e14:0:b0:2bd:16e6:e34a with SMTP id e20-20020a2e9e14000000b002bd16e6e34amr1511093ljk.19.1694590948655; Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedora ([79.140.208.123]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id mq22-20020a170907831600b009ad778a68c5sm2573755ejc.60.2023.09.13.00.42.28 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:42:25 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Donald Buczek , stable@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern , Nikolay Aleksandrov , "David S. Miller" , Paul Menzel Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 052/107] Remove DECnet support from kernelail Message-ID: <20230913004225.23ff874a@fedora> In-Reply-To: <2023091210-irritably-bottle-84cd@gregkh> References: <20230619102141.541044823@linuxfoundation.org> <20230619102143.987013167@linuxfoundation.org> <6084b5fc-577c-468a-a28e-e0ccc530ed9e@molgen.mpg.de> <2023091117-unripe-ceremony-c29a@gregkh> <1be4b005-edfe-5faa-4907-f1e9738cc43a@molgen.mpg.de> <2023091210-irritably-bottle-84cd@gregkh> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:15:18 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > It's just _if_ stable really gradually opens up to anything (like > > code removals, backports of new features, heuristically or AI > > selected patches, performance patches) it IMO loses its function > > and we could as well follow mainline, which, I think, is what you > > are recommending anyway. > > When code is removed from stable kernel versions, it is usually for > very good reasons, like what happened here. Sorry I can't go into > details, but you really wanted this out of your kernel, this was a > bugfix :) I don't remember the details, but look at netdev mailing archives for the discussion. It was something along the lines of the zero day bot found some pre-existing old bug in DECnet, and the consensus was the fixing a corpse was not worth doing.