[PATCH net-next v2] net: move decnet to staging

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Mon Nov 13 19:32:58 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 09:11 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Support for Decnet has been orphaned for some time.
> In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday
> cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal.
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> diff --git a/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO b/drivers/staging/decnet/TODO
[]
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +The DecNet code will be removed soon from the kernel tree as it is old,
> +obsolete, and buggy.

Old and obsolete, well OK, but
what's buggy about decnet?

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=decnet

Zarro Boogs found.



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