From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A698C04EBD for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F822089E for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:11:48 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 43F822089E Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728292AbeJQBDH (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:03:07 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0106.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.106]:42909 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727263AbeJQBDH (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:03:07 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219C01804A321; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:11:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: wish21_8372314a88721 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2392 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.153.53]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: patch "staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory" added to staging-testing From: Joe Perches To: Greg KH Cc: LKML , netdev Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:11:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20181016115137.GA28641@kroah.com> References: <15396867728666@kroah.com> <249981aa5af26de07565946fbe806e3c01f26c07.camel@perches.com> <20181016115137.GA28641@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.30.1-1build1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 13:51 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > 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 > > > 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. I understand that, but it's not the point. #pragma message might still be useful because, in the meantime, anyone actually including the uapi file would get some heads-up notification that IPX doesn't work here anymore.