Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dlci: Deprecate the DLCI driver (aka the Frame Relay layer)

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:10:42 -0700 Xie He wrote:
> > The usual way of getting rid of old code is to move it to staging/
> > for a few releases then delete it, like Arnd just did with wimax.  
> 
> Oh. OK. But I see "include/linux/if_frad.h" is included in
> "net/socket.c", and there's still some code in "net/socket.c" related
> to it. If we move all these files to "staging/", we need to change the
> "include" line in "net/socket.c" to point to the new location, and we
> still need to keep a little code in "net/socket.c". So I think if we
> move it to "staging/", we can't do this in a clean way.

I'd just place that code under appropriate #ifdef CONFIG_ so we don't
forget to remove it later.  It's just the dlci_ioctl_hook, right?

Maybe others have better ideas, Arnd?