From: Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
davem@davemloft•net, pablo@netfilter•org,
kadlec@blackhole•kfki.hu, fw@strlen•de
Cc: devel@driverdev•osuosl.org,
linux-decnet-user@lists•sourceforge.net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter•org,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: move decnet to staging
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:32:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1510601578.10883.82.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171113171142.19476-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
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.
[]
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-13 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-13 17:11 [PATCH net-next v2] net: move decnet to staging Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-13 19:32 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-11-13 20:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-14 15:07 ` Joe Perches
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