[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

2022-08-04 Thread Doc Shipley via cctalk
On 8/4/2022 4:07 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 8/4/22 2:12 PM, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: This becomes an actual showstopper when the most recent hardware platform that will run the most recent Linux kernel to support DECNet becomes impossible to maintain. I'm not convinced that th

[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

2022-08-04 Thread Matt Burke via cctalk
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 i

[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

2022-08-04 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 8/4/22 3:17 PM, 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? I have no idea. Though if it's being considered now, it will be considered again at some point in the future if it's unmaintained. If it ever

[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

2022-08-04 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Since dropping DECNET is just a proposal and needs to be voted on, what’s the chance the vote will pass? Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2022, at 14:08, Grant Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 8/4/22 2:12 PM, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: >> This becomes an actual showstopper when the most r

[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

2022-08-04 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 8/4/22 2:12 PM, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: This becomes an actual showstopper when the most recent hardware platform that will run the most recent Linux kernel to support DECNet becomes impossible to maintain. I'm not convinced that the inability to boot the newest kernel that supports

[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

2022-08-04 Thread Doc Shipley via cctalk
On 8/2/2022 2:12 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: I'm trying to understand how many installations are actually using DECnet in Linux / how big the potential problem is / will be. This becomes an actual showstopper when the most recent hardware platform that will run the most recent Lin