On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 13:51 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 04:43:30AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 12:46 +0200, gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directoryts > > [] > > > From dd71c89b2c1ae049d2018107e9d7a41261db3f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:45:13 +0200 > > > Subject: staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory > > > > > > The IPX code was removed from staging back in November 2017, but the > > > MAINTAINERS entry stuck around. Remove the invalid directory from the > > > file as it does not actually point to anything anymore. > > > > As the uapi ipx file still exists but the functionality > > has been removed, perhaps some compiler message like > > > > #pragma message "IPX functionality removed as of linux kernel v4.18" > > > > should be added to the uapi file. > > Eventually those files should be removed by the networking developers. > It will take a bit of work for them to do it, it's not a straight > "delete the file" work.
I understand that, but it's not the point. #pragma message might still be useful because, in the meantime, anyone actually including the uapi file would get some heads-up notification that IPX doesn't work here anymore.
