Re: [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 07:30:09AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:02:14PM CET, stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >Support for Decnet has been orphaned for many years.
> >In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday
> >cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Why not just remove it in the same way tokenring was removed in the
> past? I fear that in staging, this will rot forever for no good reason.

No, I will not let it stay around for long :)

Stephen, no objection from me for this, but can you add a TODO file much
like drivers/staging/irda/TODO has?

thanks,

greg k-h
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