From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
devel@driverdev•osuosl.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft•com>,
davem@davemloft•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:19:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171113071953.GA4352@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171113063009.GB1986@nanopsycho>
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 07:30:09AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:02:14PM CET, stephen@networkplumber•org 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@networkplumber•org>
>
> 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-13 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 20:02 [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-13 6:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-11-13 7:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
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