netdev - Re: Can decnet be deprecated?

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Message-ID: <877eh12y3x.fsf@miraculix.mork.no>
Date:   Sun, 25 Nov 2018 12:30:26 +0100
From:   Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     dsahern@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can decnet be deprecated?

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:12:48 -0700
>
>> IPX was moved to staging at the end of last year. Can decnet follow
>> suit? git log seems to indicate no active development in a very long time.
>
> Last time I tried to do that someone immediately said on the list
> "Don't, we're using that!"

Not sure about that.  What I can see is a claim that it has no bugs:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/837484/

The V1 received only support for removal:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/837261/

But no one claimed they were using decnet.

Bjørn