Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:51:37 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: patch "staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory" added to staging-testing |
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 04:43:30AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 12:46 +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directoryts > [] > > From dd71c89b2c1ae049d2018107e9d7a41261db3f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:45:13 +0200 > > Subject: staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory > > > > The IPX code was removed from staging back in November 2017, but the > > MAINTAINERS entry stuck around. Remove the invalid directory from the > > file as it does not actually point to anything anymore. > > As the uapi ipx file still exists but the functionality > has been removed, perhaps some compiler message like > > #pragma message "IPX functionality removed as of linux kernel v4.18" > > should be added to the uapi file.
Eventually those files should be removed by the networking developers. It will take a bit of work for them to do it, it's not a straight "delete the file" work.
thanks,
greg k-h
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