Commit 1e06b3d0 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by Yongqiang Liu
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Remove DECnet support from kernel

stable inclusion
from stable-v4.19.286
commit 3e77bbc87342841db66c18a3afca0441c8c555e4
category: bugfix
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I7J5UF


CVE: NA

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commit 1202cdd6 upstream.

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux kernel.

It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.

Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
for AF_DECNET.

The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDong Chenchen <dongchenchen2@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYue Haibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
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