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

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Message-ID: <20171113063009.GB1986@nanopsycho>
Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:30:09 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging

Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:02:14PM CET, stephen@...workplumber.org wrote:
>Support for Decnet has been orphaned for many years.
>In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday
>cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal.
>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Why not just remove it in the same way tokenring was removed in the
past? I fear that in staging, this will rot forever for no good reason.