Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2023 08:04:23 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] Remove DECnet support from kernel | From | Jiri Slaby <> |
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On 18. 08. 22, 2:43, 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>
... > include/uapi/linux/dn.h | 149 - > include/uapi/linux/netfilter_decnet.h | 72 -
Hi,
this breaks userspace. Some projects include linux/dn.h:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=include.*linux%2Fdn.h&literal=0
I found Trinity fails to build: net/proto-decnet.c:5:10: fatal error: linux/dn.h: No such file or directory 5 | #include <linux/dn.h>
Should we provide the above as empty files?
thanks, -- js suse labs
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