On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:47:01 -0700 (PDT) David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, David P. Reed via Bloat wrote: > > > Sorry for top posting, but ... Bigger question: > > Why would DCCP be deprecated by Linux kernel? > > Who makes that decision? Who argues against it? > > Linus or the networking maintaners make the decision. > > Usually things get pulled from the kernel because there are updates that need > to > be made to the code (to match changes elsewhere in the kernel or because of > security issues) and there isn't a maintainer who works on the code in a > resonable time. This means that the maintainers for the general code area (in > this case networking maintainers) will need to do extra work in an area they > aren't that interested in (and, especially in the case of hardware, may not > have > the ability to test). They do some of it, especially if it's commonly used, > but > eventually either another maintainer steps up, or it goes away > > David Lang See https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230614194705.90673-3-kun...@amazon.com/ _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
