ipx: move Novell IPX protocol support into staging

The Netware IPX protocol is very old and no one should still be using
it. It is time to move it into staging for a while and eventually
decommision it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Stephen Hemminger 2017-11-14 08:37:14 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent da1725ca48
commit e02554e9a4
13 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -7311,9 +7311,8 @@ F: drivers/tty/ipwireless/
IPX NETWORK LAYER IPX NETWORK LAYER
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
S: Odd fixes S: Odd fixes
F: include/net/ipx.h
F: include/uapi/linux/ipx.h F: include/uapi/linux/ipx.h
F: net/ipx/ F: drivers/staging/ipx/
IRDA SUBSYSTEM IRDA SUBSYSTEM
M: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> M: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>

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@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ if STAGING
source "drivers/staging/irda/net/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/irda/net/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/ipx/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/wlan-ng/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/wlan-ng/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig"

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@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
obj-y += media/ obj-y += media/
obj-y += typec/ obj-y += typec/
obj-$(CONFIG_IPX) += ipx/
obj-$(CONFIG_IRDA) += irda/net/ obj-$(CONFIG_IRDA) += irda/net/
obj-$(CONFIG_IRDA) += irda/drivers/ obj-$(CONFIG_IRDA) += irda/drivers/
obj-$(CONFIG_PRISM2_USB) += wlan-ng/ obj-$(CONFIG_PRISM2_USB) += wlan-ng/

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drivers/staging/ipx/TODO Normal file
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@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
The ipx code will be removed soon from the kernel tree as it is old and
obsolete and broken.
Don't worry about fixing up anything here, it's not needed.

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@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ source "net/dsa/Kconfig"
source "net/8021q/Kconfig" source "net/8021q/Kconfig"
source "net/decnet/Kconfig" source "net/decnet/Kconfig"
source "net/llc/Kconfig" source "net/llc/Kconfig"
source "net/ipx/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig"
source "net/x25/Kconfig" source "net/x25/Kconfig"
source "net/lapb/Kconfig" source "net/lapb/Kconfig"

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@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PACKET) += packet/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_KEY) += key/ obj-$(CONFIG_NET_KEY) += key/
obj-$(CONFIG_BRIDGE) += bridge/ obj-$(CONFIG_BRIDGE) += bridge/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA) += dsa/ obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA) += dsa/
obj-$(CONFIG_IPX) += ipx/
obj-$(CONFIG_ATALK) += appletalk/ obj-$(CONFIG_ATALK) += appletalk/
obj-$(CONFIG_X25) += x25/ obj-$(CONFIG_X25) += x25/
obj-$(CONFIG_LAPB) += lapb/ obj-$(CONFIG_LAPB) += lapb/