Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:09:00 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] Remove DECnet support from kernel | From | Nikolay Aleksandrov <> |
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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>
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