Re: [PATCH net-next] Remove DECnet support from kernel

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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>







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