netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet

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Message-Id: <20171127.230445.2275411297716757526.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 23:04:45 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:01:51 -0800

> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:19:21 -0500 (EST)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.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@...workplumber.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.

People are using decnet.

Last time I broke it there were users who complained.