From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:01:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171126230151.5cb21f52@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171126.171921.712591446806070147.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:19:21 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:11:18 -0800
>
> > Nothing has been done in Linux to maintain DECnet
> > for years. The code is buggy and does not support net namespace.
> > This patch removes all support of it from iproute2
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>
> Even if decnet had been moved to staging/ (which it hasn't) I'd say
> this is entirely premature Stephen.
>
> As long as the decnet code is upstream, you can't just yank away
> support from the tooling.
I agree that it is probably too early to remove support completely.
Instead, why not just mark IPX and DecNET as deprecated and warn users
for a couple of releases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-26 20:11 [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-26 22:19 ` David Miller
2017-11-27 7:01 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-11-27 14:04 ` David Miller
2017-11-27 16:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-27 17:14 ` David Miller
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