On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 9:51 AM Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > The usual way of getting rid of old code is to move it to staging/ > > > for a few releases then delete it, like Arnd just did with wimax. > > > > Oh. OK. But I see "include/linux/if_frad.h" is included in > > "net/socket.c", and there's still some code in "net/socket.c" related > > to it. If we move all these files to "staging/", we need to change the > > "include" line in "net/socket.c" to point to the new location, and we > > still need to keep a little code in "net/socket.c". So I think if we > > move it to "staging/", we can't do this in a clean way. > > I'd just place that code under appropriate #ifdef CONFIG_ so we don't > forget to remove it later. It's just the dlci_ioctl_hook, right?
Searching "dlci" (case insensitive) in "net/socket.c", I found there were 3 areas with "dlci.c" related code. I also found there were 2 macro definitions in "include/uapi/linux/sockios.h". > Maybe others have better ideas, Arnd?