Re: patch "staging: MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete IPX staging directory" added to staging-testing

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 12:46 +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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.

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> []
> @@ -7672,7 +7672,6 @@ IPX NETWORK LAYER
>  L:	netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Obsolete
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/ipx.h
> -F:	drivers/staging/ipx/
>  
>  IRQ DOMAINS (IRQ NUMBER MAPPING LIBRARY)
>  M:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>