netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: move decnet to staging

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Message-ID: <1510601578.10883.82.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:32:58 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        davem@...emloft.net, pablo@...filter.org, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu,
        fw@...len.de
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-decnet-user@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: move decnet to staging

On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 09:11 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Support for Decnet has been orphaned for some time.
> In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday
> cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO b/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO
[]
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +The DecNet code will be removed soon from the kernel tree as it is old,
> +obsolete, and buggy.

Old and obsolete, well OK, but
what's buggy about decnet?

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=decnet

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