Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] drop support for DECnet

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:01:51 -0800

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:19:21 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> 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 <[email-masked]>  
> 
> 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.