Re: [Bloat] Two questions re high speed congestion management anddatagram protocols

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
David Lang <david@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-kuniyu@amazon.com/