On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:19:21 -0500 (EST) David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:11:18 -0800 > > > Nothing has been done in Linux to maintain DECnet > > for years. The code is buggy and does not support net namespace. > > This patch removes all support of it from iproute2 > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > > Even if decnet had been moved to staging/ (which it hasn't) I'd say > this is entirely premature Stephen. > > As long as the decnet code is upstream, you can't just yank away > support from the tooling. I agree that it is probably too early to remove support completely. Instead, why not just mark IPX and DecNET as deprecated and warn users for a couple of releases.
