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

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Date:   Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:51:28 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] drop support for DECnet

On 12/11/18 9:40 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> DECnet belongs in the history museum of dead protocols along
> with Appletalk and IPX.
> 
> Linux support has outlived its natural life and the time has
> come to remove it from iproute2. Dead code is a source
> of bugs and exploits.
> 
> If anyone actually has DECnet running on some old distribution
> they can just keep to the old version of iproute2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> ---
>  Makefile               |   3 --
>  README.decnet          |  33 --------------
>  README.lnstat          |   2 +-
>  include/utils.h        |   3 --
>  ip/ip.c                |   2 +-
>  ip/iproute.c           |   2 +-
>  lib/dnet_ntop.c        | 101 -----------------------------------------
>  lib/dnet_pton.c        |  75 ------------------------------
>  lib/utils.c            |  23 ----------
>  man/man8/ip-route.8.in |   2 +-
>  man/man8/ip.8          |   9 +---
>  11 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 249 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 README.decnet
>  delete mode 100644 lib/dnet_ntop.c
>  delete mode 100644 lib/dnet_pton.c

applied to iproute2-next. Thanks