On 18/08/2022 03:43, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention > from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol > history museum not in Linux kernel. > > It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support > for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on > Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well. > > Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling. > This means that there is still an empty neighbour table > for AF_DECNET. > > The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match > current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Incorporates feedback from the initial RFC. > The MPLS neighbour table to family table is left alone. > Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
