netdev - Re: Can decnet be deprecated?

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Message-ID: <20181126163451.49087c84@xeon-e3>
Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:34:51 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Can decnet be deprecated?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:12:48 -0700
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> David

I have no problem with dropping decnet support from iproute first.
Presumably anyone still using it is going to be on old distro tools anyway.