Remove DECnet support from kernel

commit 1202cdd665315c525b5237e96e0bedc76d7e754f 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: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-17 17:43:21 -07:00
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@@ -1802,9 +1802,6 @@ static struct neigh_table *neigh_find_table(int family)
case AF_INET6:
tbl = neigh_tables[NEIGH_ND_TABLE];
break;
case AF_DECnet:
tbl = neigh_tables[NEIGH_DN_TABLE];
break;
}
return tbl;