On 04/08/2022 22:17, Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > Since dropping DECNET is just a proposal and needs to be voted on, what’s the > chance the vote will pass?
If DECnet support gets removed then it's not a big deal, in fact it may actually be a good thing. The last time I tried the DECnet support in the latest 4.x kernel about a year ago it didn't work anyway. I developed a number of patches to fix it which I never got round to submitting. I don't know if anyone else fixed these problems in the mean time. I suspect not. It probably wouldn't take much effort to rework this as an out-of-tree module which could then continue to be maintained separately from the kernel. It could also be combined with dnprogs into a single repository. I did something similar with the long dead Linux SNA support: https://github.com/9track/linux-sna/tree/next This was originally a set of patches for 2.2.x kernels and I have reworked it as an out-of-tree module for 4.x kernels. It's not currently usable as there's still lots to do but you get the idea. It does build and load and it was a good learning exercise. Matt
