netdev - [PATCH 0/2] net: Remove the ipx network layer header files

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Message-ID: <20210813120803.101-1-caihuoqing@baidu.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Aug 2021 20:08:01 +0800
From:   Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@...du.com>
To:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        <dsahern@...nel.org>, <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@...du.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] net: Remove the ipx network layer header files 

commit <47595e32869f> ("<MAINTAINERS: Mark some staging directories>")
indicated the ipx network layer as obsolete in Jan 2018,
updated in the MAINTAINERS file.

now, after being exposed for 3 years to refactoring, so to
remove the ipx network layer header files

additionally, there is no module that depends on ipx.h
except a broken staging driver(r8188eu)

Cai Huoqing (2):
  net: Remove net/ipx.h and uapi/linux/ipx.h header files
  MAINTAINERS: Remove the ipx network layer info

 MAINTAINERS              |   5 --
 include/net/ipx.h        | 171 ---------------------------------------
 include/uapi/linux/ipx.h |  87 --------------------
 3 files changed, 263 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 include/net/ipx.h
 delete mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ipx.h

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